Serious A347 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 30 August 2016 at 21:29 involving a Citroen Xsara taxi
A Citroen Xsara taxi hit a pedestrian on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 21:29 on Tuesday 30 August 2016. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Aug 2016
- Tuesday, 21:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77322, longitude -1.88712, in the BH10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kinson, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, BH10 7BH 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016551601979
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Bournemouth
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 347
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2024.
Slight
Car crash on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 16 January 2024
5 m awayRef 2024552400331
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 17 September 2025
6 m awayRef 2025552501424
Serious
Car crash on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 6 August 1995
7 m awayRef 19955595B2968
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A347 in Dorset, 2 May 2008
7 m awayRef 2008558C01860
Slight
Car crash on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 1 January 2008
8 m awayRef 2008558B00049
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 22 July 2009
9 m awayRef 2009559C02954
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2016551601979 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.