Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO40 on 16 January 2017 at 07:45 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 07:45 on Monday 16 January 2017. The 29-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2017
- Monday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8908, longitude -1.46382, in the SO40 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marchwood & Eling, New Forest, SO40 4WY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440018947
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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, lighting unknown
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 1 July 2025.
Slight
Jaguar E-Pace crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 1 July 2025
1 m awayRef 2025440291334
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 6 October 2014
2 m awayRef 2014440360884
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 24 June 2021
2 m awayRef 2021440248964
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 15 April 2016
2 m awayRef 2016440142897
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 31 December 2018
4 m awayRef 2018440482666
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 23 May 2025
4 m awayRef 2025440226886
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 29, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2017440018947 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 2017.