Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO40 on 18 August 2014 at 00:01 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 00:01 on Monday 18 August 2014. The 58-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2014
- Monday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8721, longitude -1.46272, in the SO40 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brockenhurst & Denny Lodge, New Forest, SO40 4UR 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
- 2014440298189
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2004.
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 10 November 2004
11 m awayRef 2004440DH0317
Serious
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the B3056 in the New Forest, 24 March 2011
21 m awayRef 2011440123228
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 2 April 2007
22 m awayRef 2007440149752
Slight
Aprilia RS 125 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 3 August 2005
28 m awayRef 2005440611240
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 15 December 1997
32 m awayRef 1997440DH0323
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 28 July 1999
32 m awayRef 1999440DH0212
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,170 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 58, 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 2014440298189 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 2014.