C road crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole BH23 on 20 July 2008 at 22:47 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo and a Hyundai Accent were involved in a crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 22:47 on Sunday 20 July 2008. The 17-year-old male driver of the Citroen Saxo and the 41-year-old female driver of the Hyundai Accent were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 2008
- Sunday, 22:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Saxo and Hyundai Accent
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77702, longitude -1.79672, in the BH23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bransgore, Burley, Sopley & Ringwood East, New Forest, BH23 7BN area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Christchurch district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008558D03053
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 January 2002.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 20 January 2002
10 m awayRef 2002552E00381
Serious
Kia Venga crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 8 January 2015
11 m awayRef 2015555998937
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 10 May 2011
14 m awayRef 2011551D20759
Serious
Vauxhall Midi crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 6 July 1994
14 m awayRef 19945594C2434
Serious
Yamaha Tracer crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 6 July 2025
18 m awayRef 2025552500833
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 10 April 2015
21 m awayRef 2015556000008
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Accent
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai Accent)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2008558D03053 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole road accident statistics for 2008.