C road crash in the New Forest BH24 on 2 December 2002 at 07:05 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in the New Forest at 07:05 on Monday 2 December 2002. The 34-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 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2002
- Monday, 07:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84863, longitude -1.72596, 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
- 2002440DR0299
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 October 1984.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 14 October 1984
10 m awayRef 1984440DR0204
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in the New Forest, 6 October 1988
28 m awayRef 1988440DR0177
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 29 July 1987
67 m awayRef 1987440DR0136
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 10 November 2025
105 m awayRef 2025440508934
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 14 June 1986
108 m awayRef 1986440DR0120
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 26 February 1982
135 m awayRef 1982440DR0032
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2002440DR0299 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.