Unclassified road crash in Eastleigh SO53 on 1 January 2008 at 06:36 involving a Ford Focus
A car and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh at 06:36 on Tuesday 1 January 2008. The 47-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 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2008
- Tuesday, 06:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99746, longitude -1.35885, in the SO53 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chandler's Ford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hiltingbury, Eastleigh, SO53 2DW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastleigh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440000719
- Council area
- Eastleigh
- 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
- Urban
- 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
- Unclassified
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 5 October 2007.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh, 5 October 2007
At the same spotRef 2007440460445
Serious
Piaggio T5 125 crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh, 21 October 2011
10 m awayRef 2011440447677
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh, 3 September 1997
10 m awayRef 1997440LA0566
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A31 in Winchester, 1 June 1988
10 m awayRef 1988440OC0440
Serious
Yamaha DT 125 R crash on a C road in Eastleigh, 10 September 2000
10 m awayRef 2000440LA0725
Fatal
Car crash on the A33 in Eastleigh, 1 December 1984
14 m awayRef 1984440LA0510
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2008440000719 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Eastleigh road accident statistics for 2008.