B3053 crash in the New Forest on 24 January 2020 at 19:55 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B3053 in the New Forest at 19:55 on Friday 24 January 2020. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2020
- Friday, 19:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81346, longitude -1.32934, in the SO45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020440030170
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3053
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 56 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 1997.
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the B3053 in the New Forest, 28 December 1997
56 m awayRef 1997440DH0341
Serious
Car crash on the B3053 in the New Forest, 18 November 1981
67 m awayRef 1981440DH0319
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 6 May 1985
74 m awayRef 1985440EH0100
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3053 in the New Forest, 17 October 1979
82 m awayRef 1979440DH0256
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B3053 in the New Forest, 9 August 2004
116 m awayRef 2004440DH0240
Slight
Volkswagen Corrado crash on the B3053 in the New Forest, 25 June 2004
137 m awayRef 2004440DH0183
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2020440030170 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 2020.