Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO40 on 7 February 2023 at 08:30 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 08:30 on Tuesday 7 February 2023. A 50-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 2023
- Tuesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90195, longitude -1.54639, in the SO40 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023440051898
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 22 March 2016
18 m awayRef 2016440113790
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 15 July 1998
46 m awayRef 1998440DL0178
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 16 September 2023
53 m awayRef 2023440378564
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 27 June 2009
62 m awayRef 2009440279310
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in the New Forest, 16 October 1981
107 m awayRef 1981440DL0163
Serious
Volvo 480 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 17 July 2001
114 m awayRef 2001440DL0143
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2023440051898 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 2023.