Unclassified road crash in the New Forest BH23 on 4 September 2021 at 19:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 19:00 on Saturday 4 September 2021. The 27-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 2021
- Saturday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78046, longitude -1.73435, in the BH23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bransgore. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bransgore, Burley, Sopley & Ringwood East, New Forest, BH23 8BW 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
- 2021440355244
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 2015.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 21 May 2015
3 m awayRef 2015440170847
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 17 March 1997
5 m awayRef 1997440DR0046
Slight
Peugeot Vivacity crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 30 July 2005
12 m awayRef 2005440605817
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 1 August 2016
14 m awayRef 2016440287391
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 13 September 1995
15 m awayRef 1995440DR0141
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in the New Forest, 31 August 1993
19 m awayRef 1993440DR0152
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2021440355244 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 2021.