A336 crash in the New Forest on 21 October 2002 at 09:51 involving an Austin Mini
An Austin Mini crashed on the A336 in the New Forest at 09:51 on Monday 21 October 2002. The 90-year-old male driver 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
- 21 Oct 2002
- Monday, 09:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Mini
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91638, longitude -1.53565, in the SO40 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002440DL0200
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 336
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a fatal crash on 20 April 2014.
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the A336 in the New Forest, 20 April 2014
5 m awayRef 2014440138981
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 3 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025440497941
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A336 in the New Forest, 23 June 1996
14 m awayRef 1996440DL0099
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A336 in the New Forest, 14 June 2005
22 m awayRef 2005440543052
Slight
Lorry crash on the A336 in the New Forest, 26 June 1989
22 m awayRef 1989440EL0130
Slight
Car crash on the A336 in the New Forest, 10 February 1987
22 m awayRef 1987440EL0024
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 90 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 90, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Mini)
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 2002440DL0200 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 2002.