A336 crash in the New Forest on 15 December 2015 at 21:56 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A336 in the New Forest at 21:56 on Tuesday 15 December 2015. The 79-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2015
- Tuesday, 21:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9178, longitude -1.49185, in the SO40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Totton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marchwood & Eling, New Forest, SO40 9NE 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
- 2015440439612
- 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
- 336
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 2009.
Slight
Honda CBR125R crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 14 May 2009
7 m awayRef 2009440207481
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 18 December 1992
7 m awayRef 1992440DT0223
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 31 October 2002
7 m awayRef 2002440DT0288
Slight
Volvo C 30 crash on the A336 in the New Forest, 16 August 2016
11 m awayRef 2016440306736
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A336 in the New Forest, 2 August 2021
12 m awayRef 2021440307103
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A336 in the New Forest, 26 July 2002
13 m awayRef 2002440DT0198
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 79, 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 2015440439612 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 2015.