A338 crash in the New Forest on 25 December 2013 at 23:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A338 in the New Forest at 23:00 on Wednesday 25 December 2013. The 19-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2013
- Wednesday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91887, longitude -1.78731, in the SP6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013440482227
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 338
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Raining, 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 2022.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 22 January 2022
1 m awayRef 2022440029191
Slight
Car crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 6 August 1983
4 m awayRef 1983440DF0072
Serious
Van crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 9 July 1983
6 m awayRef 1983440DF0060
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 14 December 2007
6 m awayRef 2007440574394
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 19 January 1995
6 m awayRef 1995440DF0003
Slight
Scania crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 23 May 2003
6 m awayRef 2003440DF0049
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 19, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2013440482227 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.