Serious unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO41 on 17 December 2007 at 11:03 involving a Daihatsu HI-Jet van
A Daihatsu HI-Jet van and a Renault Laguna were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 11:03 on Monday 17 December 2007. The 59-year-old male driver of the Daihatsu HI-Jet van was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Dec 2007
- Monday, 11:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Daihatsu HI-Jet and Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76286, longitude -1.6048, in the SO41 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007440575490
- 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
- 40 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 89%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 11%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 2016.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 5 October 2016
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Slight
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 11 July 1999
100 m awayRef 1999440DW0187
Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 26 April 1998
120 m awayRef 1998440DW0114
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 21 March 1996
120 m awayRef 1996440DW0056
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 26 April 1990
120 m awayRef 1990440DW0087
Slight
Renault 9 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 18 September 2000
122 m awayRef 2000440DW0243
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Daihatsu HI-Jet
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 59, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daihatsu HI-Jet)
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 2007440575490 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 2007.