B3068 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 15 January 2025 at 17:06 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Volkswagen Taigo were involved in a crash on the B3068 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 17:06 on Wednesday 15 January 2025. The 85-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Taigo 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
- 15 Jan 2025
- Wednesday, 17:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Volkswagen Taigo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73788, longitude -1.94971, in the BH12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Poole. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newtown & Heatherlands, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, BH15 3PQ 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
- 2025552500240
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3068
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 2024.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3068 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 19 November 2024
1 m awayRef 2024552401368
Serious
Lexmoto ZSB crash on the B3068 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 28 February 2025
2 m awayRef 2025552500217
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the B3068 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 25 April 2019
2 m awayRef 2019551900424
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B3068 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 17 December 2024
4 m awayRef 2024552401516
Slight
Harley-Davidson XL 883 crash on the B3068 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 10 October 2018
5 m awayRef 2018551801260
Slight
Sym Jet crash on the B3068 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 23 January 2019
5 m awayRef 2019551900095
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Taigo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 85 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 85, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Taigo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025552500240 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 2025.