B3347 crash in the New Forest on 22 August 1997 at 19:25 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the B3347 in the New Forest at 19:25 on Friday 22 August 1997. The 33-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 1997
- Friday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78076, longitude -1.78861, in the BH23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997440DR0143
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3347
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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 11 July 1996.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3347 in the New Forest, 11 July 1996
At the same spotRef 1996440DR0081
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B3347 in the New Forest, 8 February 1996
At the same spotRef 1996440DR0019
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the B3347 in the New Forest, 2 June 2005
10 m awayRef 2005440527577
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B3347 in the New Forest, 22 May 2007
14 m awayRef 2007440237109
Slight
Porsche 911 crash on the B3347 in the New Forest, 13 March 2002
14 m awayRef 2002440DR0060
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3347 in the New Forest, 13 May 2001
20 m awayRef 2001440DR0089
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 33, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)
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 1997440DR0143 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 1997.