A31 crash in the New Forest on 17 January 2007 at 06:20 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series and a car were involved in a crash on the A31 in the New Forest at 06:20 on Wednesday 17 January 2007. The 59-year-old female driver of the Rover 400 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2007
- Wednesday, 06:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 400 Series and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84855, longitude -1.77198, in the BH24 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ringwood North & Ellingham, New Forest, BH24 1XX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007440025190
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 31
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 2008.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 26 February 2008
At the same spotRef 2008440084987
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 13 June 2022
11 m awayRef 2022440235215
Fatal
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 14 June 2025
11 m awayRef 2025440261587
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 18 May 2007
14 m awayRef 2007440229969
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 1 October 2007
20 m awayRef 2007440454224
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 4 December 2003
20 m awayRef 2003440DR0302
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)
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 2007440025190 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 2007.