Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO41 on 15 August 2012 at 19:00 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 19:00 on Wednesday 15 August 2012. The 49-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and a 14-year-old male passenger in the Ford Fiesta 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
- 15 Aug 2012
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75823, longitude -1.54199, in the SO41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lymington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lymington, New Forest, SO41 9BS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012440319303
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 13 April 1989
3 m awayRef 1989440DG0058
Slight
Kawasaki KMX125 crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 15 November 1991
3 m awayRef 1991440DG0227
Slight
Citroen XM crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 28 May 1993
3 m awayRef 1993440DG0074
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in the New Forest, 19 March 1987
9 m awayRef 1987440DG0050
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 27 August 1984
9 m awayRef 1984440DG0143
Slight
Minibus crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 25 August 1989
9 m awayRef 1989440DG0165
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2012440319303 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 2012.