A337 crash in the New Forest on 4 December 2013 at 16:51 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A337 in the New Forest at 16:51 on Wednesday 4 December 2013. The 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2013
- Wednesday, 16:51
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82046, longitude -1.57171, in the SO42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brockenhurst. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brockenhurst & Denny Lodge, New Forest, SO42 7AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013440456610
- 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
- 337
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 16 October 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 16 October 2018
3 m awayRef 2018440389279
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 8 March 2001
3 m awayRef 2001440DG0040
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 7 November 2005
7 m awayRef 2005440757710
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 1 November 2018
29 m awayRef 2018440410502
Fatal
ERF crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 4 June 2000
54 m awayRef 2000440DG0105
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 1 March 1999
54 m awayRef 1999440DG0051
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 2013440456610 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.