A31 crash in the New Forest on 30 April 2009 at 09:15 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira crashed on the A31 in the New Forest at 09:15 on Thursday 30 April 2009. The 38-year-old female driver and a 3-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Apr 2009
- Thursday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91356, longitude -1.6004, in the SO43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009440184995
- 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
- 31
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 December 1996.
Serious
Rover Range Rover crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 1 December 1996
10 m awayRef 1996440DL0224
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 23 March 2011
10 m awayRef 2011440121257
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 27 December 2021
21 m awayRef 2021440517055
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 2 June 2009
28 m awayRef 2009440236503
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 31 March 1994
32 m awayRef 1994440DL0054
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 28 June 1996
32 m awayRef 1996440DL0101
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2009440184995 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 2009.