Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO40 on 21 February 2017 at 18:25 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 18:25 on Tuesday 21 February 2017. The 73-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 2017
- Tuesday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89075, longitude -1.44256, in the SO40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Marchwood.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440064867
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 2002.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 24 May 2002
4 m awayRef 2002440DH0122
Fatal
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 16 August 2024
46 m awayRef 2024440352481
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 4 November 1990
88 m awayRef 1990440EH0281
Slight
Car crash on the A970 in the New Forest, 1 January 1987
97 m awayRef 1987910020001
Serious
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 20 May 2000
114 m awayRef 2000440DH0142
Slight
MG Montego crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 6 October 1993
175 m awayRef 1993440DH0216
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017440064867 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.