C road crash in the New Forest SP6 on 21 July 1996 at 19:15 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on a C road in the New Forest at 19:15 on Sunday 21 July 1996. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 1996
- Sunday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93108, longitude -1.82706, in the SP6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996440DF0053
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 2001.
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 26 April 2001
At the same spotRef 2001440DF0045
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 11 October 1993
60 m awayRef 1993440DF0063
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 18 December 2000
114 m awayRef 2000440DR0295
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 5 October 2013
165 m awayRef 2013440378318
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 9 January 1998
184 m awayRef 1998440DF0004
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 21 May 1999
201 m awayRef 1999440DF0054
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 1996440DF0053 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 1996.