A326 crash in the New Forest on 17 March 2012 at 07:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A326 in the New Forest at 07:50 on Saturday 17 March 2012. The 18-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2012
- Saturday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90393, longitude -1.50261, in the SO40 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Totton South, New Forest, SO40 7EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012440107199
- 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
- 326
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 2014.
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 21 August 2014
6 m awayRef 2014440302343
Slight
Honda crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 19 November 2025
6 m awayRef 2025440522698
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 8 November 2010
8 m awayRef 2010440473876
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 11 February 2013
9 m awayRef 2013440054263
Slight
Peugeot 3008 crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 22 May 2021
10 m awayRef 2021440197921
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 4 November 2012
17 m awayRef 2012440430739
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 69 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2012440107199 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 2012.