A338 crash in the New Forest on 6 October 1998 at 08:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A338 in the New Forest at 08:00 on Tuesday 6 October 1998. The 61-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 1998
- Tuesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85494, longitude -1.78756, in the BH24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998440DR0214
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 338
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 22 August 1985
22 m awayRef 1985440DR0167
Slight
Car crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 11 April 1986
28 m awayRef 1986440DR0053
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 14 October 1997
30 m awayRef 1997440DR0184
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 17 December 2011
32 m awayRef 2011440533477
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 5 June 1991
32 m awayRef 1991440DR0080
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 28 March 1998
36 m awayRef 1998440DR0055
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 1998440DR0214 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 1998.