A3049 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 29 May 2017 at 13:10 involving an MCC Smart
An MCC Smart crashed on the A3049 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 13:10 on Monday 29 May 2017. The 34-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 May 2017
- Monday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- MCC Smart
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73677, longitude -2.00082, in the BH17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Creekmoor, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, BH17 7XR area accident hotspot. 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
- 2017551700842
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Poole
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3049
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 April 2009.
Serious
Honda CRV crash on the A35 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 29 April 2009
14 m awayRef 2009559C01692
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A350 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 20 April 2001
25 m awayRef 2001550P01985
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3049 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 31 October 1990
30 m awayRef 19905590C1852
Serious
Daihatsu Sportrak crash on the A3049 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 28 July 1999
30 m awayRef 1999550P03498
Fatal
Jaguar X Type crash on the A3049 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 4 December 2024
33 m awayRef 2024552500106
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A3049 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 30 October 1997
39 m awayRef 19975597P5351
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MCC Smart
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 698 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MCC Smart)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017551700842 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 2017.