Unclassified road crash in the New Forest BH24 on 24 July 2018 at 21:26 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 21:26 on Tuesday 24 July 2018. The 25-year-old male driver and a 22-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 2018
- Tuesday, 21:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80547, longitude -1.67307, in the BH24 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bransgore, Burley, Sopley & Ringwood East, New Forest, BH24 4HY 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
- 2018440280377
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2003.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 7 December 2003
13 m awayRef 2003440DW0355
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 7 June 2013
29 m awayRef 2013440207233
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 20 February 2021
30 m awayRef 2021440064120
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 13 February 2006
37 m awayRef 2006440057786
Serious
MAN crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 19 December 1998
39 m awayRef 1998440DW0376
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 28 January 2005
42 m awayRef 2005445DW0029
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2018440280377 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 2018.