Serious unclassified road crash in the New Forest BH23 on 8 September 2010 at 09:49 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 09:49 on Wednesday 8 September 2010. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Sep 2010
- Wednesday, 09:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78062, longitude -1.75075, in the BH23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010440381640
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 89%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 11%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2013.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 13 December 2013
5 m awayRef 2013440468262
Serious
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 17 June 1997
139 m awayRef 1997440DR0096
Serious
Land Rover 88 crash on a C road in the New Forest, 6 January 2000
152 m awayRef 2000440DR0003
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 24 March 1987
184 m awayRef 1987440DR0048
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 19 June 1979
214 m awayRef 1979440DR0098
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 15 November 2014
224 m awayRef 2014440410801
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
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 2010440381640 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 2010.