Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO45 on 3 August 2008 at 19:15 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 19:15 on Sunday 3 August 2008. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2008
- Sunday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82601, longitude -1.39882, in the SO45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Holbury.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440344146
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 January 1984.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 29 January 1984
10 m awayRef 1984440EH0035
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 30 August 1983
14 m awayRef 1983440EH0236
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 12 November 1989
14 m awayRef 1989440EH0307
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in the New Forest, 14 March 1996
14 m awayRef 1996440DH0053
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 20 November 2025
20 m awayRef 2025440524182
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 24 July 1997
22 m awayRef 1997440DH0178
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 2008440344146 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.