Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO41 on 18 February 2008 at 20:34 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 20:34 on Monday 18 February 2008. The 20-year-old female driver, a 19-year-old male passenger and a 19-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 2008
- Monday, 20:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74853, longitude -1.59812, in the SO41 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440073093
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 1996.
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 25 November 1996
10 m awayRef 1996440DW0275
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 21 May 2001
14 m awayRef 2001440DW0148
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 9 October 1984
14 m awayRef 1984440DW0275
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 30 May 1989
20 m awayRef 1989440DW0108
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 2 March 1989
22 m awayRef 1989440DW0044
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 5 June 1991
22 m awayRef 1991440DW0126
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2008440073093 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.