Serious B3078 crash in the New Forest on 10 July 1981 at 11:00 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the B3078 in the New Forest at 11:00 on Friday 10 July 1981. A 69-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Jul 1981
- Friday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92798, longitude -1.79932, in the SP6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fordingbridge.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981440DF0064
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3078
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 14 November 1980
At the same spotRef 1980440DF0083
Slight
Van crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 19 June 1984
100 m awayRef 1984440DF0039
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 12 December 1987
128 m awayRef 1987440DF0144
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 16 February 1985
149 m awayRef 1985440DF0015
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 11 September 2011
164 m awayRef 2011440388193
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 19 May 1998
170 m awayRef 1998440DF0032
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 69, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1981440DF0064 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 1981.