Unclassified road crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole BH9 on 21 March 2009 at 00:50 involving a minibus
A minibus crashed on an unclassified road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 00:50 on Saturday 21 March 2009. A 25-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2009
- Saturday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Minibus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74188, longitude -1.88035, in the BH9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bournemouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Talbot & Branksome Woods, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, BH3 7ND area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Bournemouth district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009559C01161
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Bournemouth
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 2013.
Slight
Taxi crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 16 November 2013
At the same spotRef 2013553C48255
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 17 January 2012
At the same spotRef 2012552C02538
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 12 November 2005
14 m awayRef 2005555B05544
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 10 December 2012
22 m awayRef 2012552C52214
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 24 May 2008
22 m awayRef 2008558C02199
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 4 November 2014
28 m awayRef 2014554C46006
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Minibus
Minibus (8 to 16 seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, minibus occupant, in vehicle 1 (Minibus)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 2009559C01161 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 2009.