A338 crash in the New Forest on 23 December 2003 at 08:49 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo crashed on the A338 in the New Forest at 08:49 on Tuesday 23 December 2003. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2003
- Tuesday, 08:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90811, longitude -1.78321, in the SP6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003440DF0136
- 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
- 338
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 28 September 1991.
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 28 September 1991
10 m awayRef 1991440DF0092
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 5 December 1997
14 m awayRef 1997440DF0092
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 28 May 2001
14 m awayRef 2001440DF0055
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 30 August 1995
14 m awayRef 1995440DF0071
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 16 December 2011
20 m awayRef 2011440526884
Slight
Car crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 28 September 1991
32 m awayRef 1991440DF0093
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 2003440DF0136 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 2003.