B3055 crash in the New Forest on 31 January 2008 at 14:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3055 in the New Forest at 14:40 on Thursday 31 January 2008. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2008
- Thursday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78039, longitude -1.6048, in the SO41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sway.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440044685
- 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
- 3055
- 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
- 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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 2009.
Slight
Mazda Premacy crash on the B3055 in the New Forest, 27 April 2009
28 m awayRef 2009440180700
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B3055 in the New Forest, 10 February 2000
50 m awayRef 2000440DW0036
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3055 in the New Forest, 18 September 1979
64 m awayRef 1979440DA0149
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3055 in the New Forest, 19 April 1996
64 m awayRef 1996440DW0082
Slight
Car crash on the B3055 in the New Forest, 3 September 1999
64 m awayRef 1999440DW0248
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B3055 in the New Forest, 19 November 1999
64 m awayRef 1999440DW0329
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2008440044685 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 2008.