Serious unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO40 on 30 December 2013 at 15:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 15:20 on Monday 30 December 2013. The 31-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Dec 2013
- Monday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87963, longitude -1.48265, in the SO40 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013440486580
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 91%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 9%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 1993.
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in the New Forest, 6 September 1993
13 m awayRef 1993440DL0157
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 6 April 1992
23 m awayRef 1992440DH0063
Slight
Ford KA crash on a C road in the New Forest, 6 September 2001
27 m awayRef 2001440DH0248
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 31 August 2009
107 m awayRef 2009440380412
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 11 July 1990
133 m awayRef 1990440EH0174
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 25 May 2005
135 m awayRef 2005440516241
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2013440486580 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.