Serious A337 crash in the New Forest on 17 June 1995 at 23:09 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A337 in the New Forest at 23:09 on Saturday 17 June 1995. The 46-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Jun 1995
- Saturday, 23:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84896, longitude -1.57352, in the SO42 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995440DL0098
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 337
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 September 2009.
Serious
MG ZR crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 30 September 2009
28 m awayRef 2009440425833
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 18 June 2025
36 m awayRef 2025440267506
Slight
Car crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 21 October 1983
70 m awayRef 1983440EL0179
Slight
Leyland Cars Mini crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 18 March 1990
80 m awayRef 1990440EL0060
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 21 May 1990
80 m awayRef 1990440EL0110
Slight
Scooter crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 5 July 1987
81 m awayRef 1987440EL0125
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 1995440DL0098 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 1995.