Serious B3056 crash in the New Forest on 27 February 2008 at 07:55 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3056 in the New Forest at 07:55 on Wednesday 27 February 2008. A 19-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 18-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
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Feb 2008
- Wednesday, 07:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82261, longitude -1.45821, in the SO42 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440086655
- 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
- 3056
- 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
- 90%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 10%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the B3056 in the New Forest, 25 September 1985
10 m awayRef 1985440EH0242
Slight
Car crash on the B3056 in the New Forest, 14 April 2010
10 m awayRef 2010440150789
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B3054 in the New Forest, 1 May 2020
41 m awayRef 2020440154285
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B3056 in the New Forest, 25 October 2018
47 m awayRef 2018440401220
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the B3056 in the New Forest, 4 June 2023
50 m awayRef 2023440220286
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the B3056 in the New Forest, 9 October 2018
59 m awayRef 2018440380586
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2008440086655 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.