Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO45 on 26 October 2011 at 17:20 involving a Ford Transit van
A car and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 17:20 on Wednesday 26 October 2011. A 29-year-old male passenger in the Ford Transit van and an 11-year-old female passenger in the Ford Transit van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2011
- Wednesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85228, longitude -1.40118, in the SO45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hythe and Dibden Purlieu. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hythe South, New Forest, SO45 4JZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011440454768
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 21 November 1997
At the same spotRef 1997440DH0292
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 24 October 2023
4 m awayRef 2023440435341
Serious
Vauxhall Movano crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 27 November 2006
10 m awayRef 2006440486798
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 14 November 1993
22 m awayRef 1993440DH0244
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 3 June 1996
30 m awayRef 1996440DH0110
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 31 October 2023
42 m awayRef 2023440446063
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 11, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
- 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 2011440454768 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 2011.