C road crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole BH14 on 13 December 2012 at 16:40 involving a Volkswagen Urban
A Volkswagen Urban and a Hyundai Getz were involved in a crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 16:40 on Thursday 13 December 2012. The 84-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Urban and the 71-year-old female driver of the Hyundai Getz were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2012
- Thursday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Urban and Hyundai Getz
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71944, longitude -1.9256, in the BH14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Poole. The location was in the former Poole district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012552C52402
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Poole
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 May 1989.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 25 May 1989
10 m awayRef 19895589C0871
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 23 December 1980
10 m awayRef 1980558024703
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 21 April 1979
10 m awayRef 1979557921469
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 17 December 1985
10 m awayRef 1985558524377
Slight
Citroen BX crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 7 October 1993
10 m awayRef 19935593C4004
Fatal
Vauxhall Belmont crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 4 September 1997
10 m awayRef 19975597P4385
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Urban
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Getz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,341 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 84, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Urban)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai Getz)
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 2012552C52402 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 2012.