C road crash in the New Forest SO41 on 4 February 1980 at 13:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in the New Forest at 13:20 on Monday 4 February 1980. The 22-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Feb 1980
- Monday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76292, longitude -1.60295, in the SO41 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980440DA0009
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle combination
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 22, motorcycle combination rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1980440DA0009 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.