Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SP6 on 29 December 2004 at 20:40 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 20:40 on Wednesday 29 December 2004. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2004
- Wednesday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94327, longitude -1.83899, 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
- 2004440DF0127
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 August 1996.
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 19 August 1996
10 m awayRef 1996440DF0063
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 16 December 1994
114 m awayRef 1994440DF0102
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 16 September 1979
135 m awayRef 1979440DF0074
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 13 November 2000
149 m awayRef 2000440DF0096
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 14 September 1994
170 m awayRef 1994440DF0066
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 28 August 1996
233 m awayRef 1996440DF0066
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 2004440DF0127 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 2004.