C road crash in the New Forest SP6 on 30 December 1983 at 08:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in the New Forest at 08:45 on Friday 30 December 1983. The 16-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 1983
- Friday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93111, longitude -1.7912, in the SP6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fordingbridge.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983440DF0120
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 1990.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 28 March 1990
At the same spotRef 1990440DF0031
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 29 May 1992
At the same spotRef 1992440DF0033
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 18 May 1999
22 m awayRef 1999440DF0052
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 19 February 2006
22 m awayRef 2006440067024
Serious
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 26 March 2011
36 m awayRef 2011440125767
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 26 January 1979
58 m awayRef 1979440DF0013
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1983440DF0120 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.