B3079 crash in the New Forest on 16 December 2006 at 04:20 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the B3079 in the New Forest at 04:20 on Saturday 16 December 2006. The 22-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2006
- Saturday, 04:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93781, longitude -1.61727, in the SO43 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006440516121
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3079
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Frost or ice
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
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, 18 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 March 2013.
Serious
Iveco crash on the B3079 in the New Forest, 14 March 2013
18 m awayRef 2013440095075
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3079 in the New Forest, 29 June 2004
22 m awayRef 2004440DL0124
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3079 in the New Forest, 5 July 1997
41 m awayRef 1997440DL0157
Slight
Car crash on the B3079 in the New Forest, 9 January 1981
51 m awayRef 1981440DL0004
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 4 September 1985
90 m awayRef 1985440EL0169
Slight
Car crash on the B3079 in the New Forest, 27 September 1979
150 m awayRef 1979440DL0156
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, 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 2006440516121 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.