A35 crash in the New Forest on 14 November 2006 at 20:55 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A35 in the New Forest at 20:55 on Tuesday 14 November 2006. The 62-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
- 14 Nov 2006
- Tuesday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78686, longitude -1.69213, in the BH23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006440465955
- 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
- 35
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 2019.
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 21 September 2019
6 m awayRef 2019440337214
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 19 October 1997
50 m awayRef 1997440DW0259
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 1 December 2024
51 m awayRef 2024440523254
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 3 November 2009
106 m awayRef 2009440477153
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 29 October 2018
126 m awayRef 2018440405762
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 26 February 1989
149 m awayRef 1989440DW0041
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 2006440465955 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 2006.