Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO45 on 30 November 2006 at 19:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Skoda Octavia were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 19:30 on Thursday 30 November 2006. The 23-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2006
- Thursday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84288, longitude -1.39363, in the SO45 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hardley, Holbury & North Blackfield, New Forest, SO45 3AE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006440491780
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 326
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 2003.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 26 June 2003
At the same spotRef 2003440DH0201
Slight
MAN crash on the A326 in Basingstoke and Deane, 25 August 2005
At the same spotRef 2005440643700
Serious
Honda crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 12 January 2003
At the same spotRef 2003440DH0009
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 8 May 2005
At the same spotRef 2005440492029
Slight
Car crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 22 May 1984
At the same spotRef 1984440EH0128
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 12 October 2025
5 m awayRef 2025440462440
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2006440491780 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.