Serious unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO43 on 12 August 2018 at 17:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 17:05 on Sunday 12 August 2018. The 67-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Aug 2018
- Sunday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91652, longitude -1.65072, in the SO43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440305485
- 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
- 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
- 94%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 6%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 184 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2014.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 12 December 2014
184 m awayRef 2014440442522
Fatal
Honda CRV crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 14 September 2010
398 m awayRef 2010440392470
Slight
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 13 April 1990
460 m awayRef 1990440DR0061
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in the New Forest, 5 December 1997
536 m awayRef 1997440DL0283
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 6 July 2014
638 m awayRef 2014440239552
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 21 September 1981
652 m awayRef 1981440DL0140
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 752 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 47 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 67, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2018440305485 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.