Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO41 on 23 June 1997 at 22:10 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 22:10 on Monday 23 June 1997. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jun 1997
- Monday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76001, longitude -1.6214, in the SO41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997440DW0157
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 17 February 1988
22 m awayRef 1988440DW0030
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 17 September 1998
28 m awayRef 1998440DW0276
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in the New Forest, 20 December 1982
30 m awayRef 1982440DW0240
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 1 December 2009
40 m awayRef 2009440518577
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 8 December 1995
50 m awayRef 1995440DW0243
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 4 November 2013
69 m awayRef 2013440417183
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 1997440DW0157 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.