Serious A31 crash in the New Forest on 7 October 2016 at 21:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A31 in the New Forest at 21:15 on Friday 7 October 2016. A 32-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Oct 2016
- Friday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86916, longitude -1.70037, in the BH24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016440379958
- 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
- 31
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 90%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 10%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 June 2017.
Serious
Nissan Juke crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 21 June 2017
2 m awayRef 2017440235816
Serious
Daewoo Matiz crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 1 August 2012
4 m awayRef 2012440296887
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 5 June 2013
5 m awayRef 2013440203609
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 16 October 2011
9 m awayRef 2011440440517
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 17 June 2007
15 m awayRef 2007440280504
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 22 June 2005
16 m awayRef 2005440554085
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2016440379958 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 2016.