Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SP6 on 10 October 1983 at 16:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 16:15 on Monday 10 October 1983. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 1983
- Monday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89376, longitude -1.77103, in the SP6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983440DF0093
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 September 1979.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 22 September 1979
100 m awayRef 1979440DR0171
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 25 February 1987
202 m awayRef 1987440DF0022
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 10 October 1998
220 m awayRef 1998440DF0084
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 15 May 1988
284 m awayRef 1988440DF0047
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 20 July 2017
285 m awayRef 2017440278964
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 29 September 2025
513 m awayRef 2025440441002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 1983440DF0093 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.