Serious C road crash in the New Forest SO41 on 28 January 1980 at 22:30 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in the New Forest at 22:30 on Monday 28 January 1980. The 48-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jan 1980
- Monday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74851, longitude -1.5974, in the SO41 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980440DA0004
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 9 October 1984
40 m awayRef 1984440DW0275
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 25 November 1996
50 m awayRef 1996440DW0275
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 18 February 2008
51 m awayRef 2008440073093
Slight
Citroen Gsa crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 5 September 1990
54 m awayRef 1990440DW0198
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 30 May 1989
58 m awayRef 1989440DW0108
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 21 May 2001
63 m awayRef 2001440DW0148
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1980440DA0004 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the New Forest road accident statistics for 1980.