A3049 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 28 December 2016 at 20:45 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class hit a pedestrian on the A3049 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 20:45 on Wednesday 28 December 2016. A 24-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 28 Dec 2016
- Wednesday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73176, longitude -1.84199, in the BH1 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
- 2016551602756
- 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
- 3049
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 6 October 2004
1 m awayRef 2004550B04909
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3049 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 13 September 2005
9 m awayRef 2005555B04387
Slight
Van crash on the A3049 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 29 March 1995
10 m awayRef 19955595B1193
Slight
Car crash on the A3049 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 4 October 2006
23 m awayRef 2006556B04705
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A3049 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 5 October 2015
26 m awayRef 2015551500697
Slight
Car crash on the A3049 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 3 July 1981
32 m awayRef 1981558121724
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,898 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016551602756 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.