A338 crash in the New Forest on 25 August 2005 at 07:10 involving a Saab 900
A car and a Saab 900 were involved in a crash on the A338 in the New Forest at 07:10 on Thursday 25 August 2005. The 60-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Aug 2005
- Thursday, 07:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Saab 900
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93671, longitude -1.78521, in the SP6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005440641749
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 338
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 2013.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 19 April 2013
7 m awayRef 2013440139684
Slight
Vauxhall Grandland crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 31 July 2022
9 m awayRef 2022440308061
Slight
Chevrolet Matiz crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 12 July 2009
10 m awayRef 2009440303333
Serious
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 29 May 2007
10 m awayRef 2007440247441
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 12 December 2005
14 m awayRef 2005440809286
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the A338 in the New Forest, 20 September 2022
20 m awayRef 2022440383223
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 2: Saab 900
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2005440641749 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 2005.