Unclassified road crash in the New Forest BH24 on 27 December 2000 at 07:15 involving a Ford Escort van
A Ford Escort van, a John Deere agricultural vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 07:15 on Wednesday 27 December 2000. The 32-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2000
- Wednesday, 07:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Escort and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85442, longitude -1.78289, in the BH24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ringwood.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000440DR0305
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 2018.
Slight
Seat Exeo crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 30 April 2018
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 10 September 1985
22 m awayRef 1985440DR0200
Slight
Porsche 911 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 3 May 2000
28 m awayRef 2000440DR0083
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 8 August 2018
50 m awayRef 2018440299924
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 23 October 1979
106 m awayRef 1979440DR0193
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 23 August 1985
153 m awayRef 1985440DR0169
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: John Deere
Agricultural vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 2000440DR0305 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 2000.