Unclassified road crash in Rushmoor GU14 on 30 December 2017 at 21:55 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Rushmoor at 21:55 on Saturday 30 December 2017. The 40-year-old male driver 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
- 30 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30591, longitude -0.77138, in the GU14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Farnborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Heath, Rushmoor, GU14 8RX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushmoor
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440503848
- Council area
- Rushmoor
- 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
- Urban
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 October 1988.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 16 October 1988
10 m awayRef 1988440FR0420
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 3 December 2005
10 m awayRef 2005440797444
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 30 March 2006
10 m awayRef 2006440118932
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 13 October 1987
12 m awayRef 1987440FR0428
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on an unclassified road in Hart, 29 August 1992
12 m awayRef 1992440FR0541
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 28 July 2011
24 m awayRef 2011440318281
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017440503848 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rushmoor road accident statistics for 2017.