A31 crash in the New Forest on 19 December 2006 at 23:19 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A31 in the New Forest at 23:19 on Tuesday 19 December 2006. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2006
- Tuesday, 23:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90289, longitude -1.63832, in the SO43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006440522206
- 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
- 31
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Fine, 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 slight injury crash on 12 June 2005.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 12 June 2005
10 m awayRef 2005440540052
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 18 February 2014
20 m awayRef 2014440058704
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 3 April 2007
20 m awayRef 2007440151580
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 17 October 2012
23 m awayRef 2012440406321
Slight
Lorry crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 3 February 1986
28 m awayRef 1986440EL0023
Serious
Car crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 15 February 1986
28 m awayRef 1986440EL0029
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2006440522206 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.