Serious A338 crash in the New Forest on 13 August 1983 at 11:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A338 in the New Forest at 11:30 on Saturday 13 August 1983. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Aug 1983
- Saturday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92805, longitude -1.78936, 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
- 1983440DF0074
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 338
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 1991.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 5 March 1991
10 m awayRef 1991440DF0025
Serious
Mercedes Vito crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 11 June 2018
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 20 May 2022
17 m awayRef 2022440200242
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 1 September 2015
19 m awayRef 2015440302893
Serious
Daewoo Kalos crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 16 August 2011
20 m awayRef 2011440349515
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 7 January 2011
20 m awayRef 2011440047376
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 1983440DF0074 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 1983.