A323 crash in Rushmoor on 19 February 2008 at 23:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A323 in Rushmoor at 23:10 on Tuesday 19 February 2008. The 30-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Feb 2008
- Tuesday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24799, longitude -0.75631, in the GU11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aldershot. It is one of the crashes that make up the Manor Park, Rushmoor, GU11 1FR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushmoor
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440074944
- Council area
- Rushmoor
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 323
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2004.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A323 in Rushmoor, 5 November 2004
At the same spotRef 2004440AA1507
Slight
Car crash on the A323 in Rushmoor, 15 December 1985
At the same spotRef 1985440AA0403
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A323 in Rushmoor, 6 February 2008
At the same spotRef 2008440054201
Serious
Car crash on the A323 in Rushmoor, 1 December 2006
10 m awayRef 2006440493818
Slight
Car crash on the A323 in Rushmoor, 14 February 1987
10 m awayRef 1987440AA0052
Slight
Bus crash on the A323 in Rushmoor, 3 May 1986
10 m awayRef 1986440AA0158
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 2008440074944 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rushmoor road accident statistics for 2008.