Serious unclassified road crash in the New Forest BH25 on 23 March 2000 at 17:05 involving a Fiat Tempra
A Fiat Tempra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 17:05 on Thursday 23 March 2000. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Mar 2000
- Thursday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Tempra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7518, longitude -1.66401, in the BH25 postcode district and within the built-up area of New Milton.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000440DW0078
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 1992.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 30 September 1992
20 m awayRef 1992440DW0197
Slight
Yamaha XV crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 24 September 2025
21 m awayRef 2025440432856
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 12 July 2001
22 m awayRef 2001440DW0200
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 11 July 1998
28 m awayRef 1998440DW0197
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 2 November 2007
30 m awayRef 2007440507749
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 11 March 2003
30 m awayRef 2003440DW0084
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Tempra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Tempra)
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 2000440DW0078 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.