Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SP6 on 8 September 2017 at 21:05 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 21:05 on Friday 8 September 2017. A 70-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 2017
- Friday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92683, longitude -1.7941, in the SP6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fordingbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fordingbridge, Godshill & Hyde, New Forest, SP6 1HZ 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
- 2017440349036
- 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
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1999.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on a C road in the New Forest, 29 March 1999
14 m awayRef 1999440DF0033
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 11 January 1996
19 m awayRef 1996440DF0004
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 26 August 1987
40 m awayRef 1987440DF0091
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 15 December 2009
46 m awayRef 2009440538665
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 14 March 1998
49 m awayRef 1998440DF0015
Slight
Car crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 10 February 1988
59 m awayRef 1988440DF0020
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- 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 2017440349036 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.