C road crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole BH8 on 7 January 2016 at 11:08 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 11:08 on Thursday 7 January 2016. A 42-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jan 2016
- Thursday, 11:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73083, longitude -1.85435, in the BH8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bournemouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Boscombe West, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, BH1 4ED 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
- 2016551600052
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Bournemouth
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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 2024.
Slight
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4 m awayRef 2024552400104
Slight
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5 m awayRef 2009559C05191
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 26 September 2002
5 m awayRef 2002550B05384
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 21 October 1993
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Slight
Alfa Romeo 33 crash on an unclassified road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 12 May 1997
7 m awayRef 19975597B2226
Slight
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7 m awayRef 19905590E0383
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
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 2016551600052 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 2016.