Serious A35 crash in the New Forest on 17 June 2013 at 11:45 involving a Suzuki SX4
A motorcycle and a Suzuki SX4 were involved in a crash on the A35 in the New Forest at 11:45 on Monday 17 June 2013. The 72-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Jun 2013
- Monday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Suzuki SX4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78471, longitude -1.6941, 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
- 2013440220507
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 35
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 95%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 5%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2004.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 8 September 2004
2 m awayRef 2004440DR0228
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 21 May 2018
3 m awayRef 2018440187769
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 8 May 2021
3 m awayRef 2021440176792
Serious
Lexmoto LXR crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 13 May 2023
4 m awayRef 2023440188332
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 28 June 2016
4 m awayRef 2016440240990
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 3 August 1994
8 m awayRef 1994440DR0099
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki SX4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,586 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 72, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2013440220507 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 2013.