Serious unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO45 on 23 April 2017 at 11:35 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 11:35 on Sunday 23 April 2017. The 57-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Apr 2017
- Sunday, 11:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79359, longitude -1.35761, in the SO45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440151162
- 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
- 60 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 93%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 7%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 1992.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on a C road in the New Forest, 10 May 1992
5 m awayRef 1992440DH0085
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 30 July 1983
5 m awayRef 1983440EH0204
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in the New Forest, 16 May 1995
7 m awayRef 1995440DH0124
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 18 November 2017
9 m awayRef 2017440449063
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 8 August 2002
27 m awayRef 2002440DH0195
Fatal
Subaru Impreza crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 7 June 2008
65 m awayRef 2008440248694
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 57, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2017440151162 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.