Serious unclassified road crash in the New Forest BH24 on 23 September 1987 at 18:25 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 18:25 on Wednesday 23 September 1987. The 44-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Sep 1987
- Wednesday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88799, longitude -1.81272, in the BH24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987440DF0104
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 September 1985.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 7 September 1985
58 m awayRef 1985440DR0202
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 13 May 1993
58 m awayRef 1993440DR0083
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 14 December 2015
195 m awayRef 2015440437638
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 16 July 2006
206 m awayRef 2006440271536
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 26 February 2024
235 m awayRef 2024440083299
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 14 November 1989
336 m awayRef 1989440DR0257
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1987440DF0104 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 1987.