A337 crash in the New Forest on 30 March 2013 at 22:15 involving a Nissan Almera
A Nissan Almera and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on the A337 in the New Forest at 22:15 on Saturday 30 March 2013. The 56-year-old male driver of the Nissan Almera was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2013
- Saturday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Almera and Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74789, longitude -1.64592, in the BH25 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashley, Bashley & Fernhill, New Forest, BH25 6UB 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
- 2013440116260
- 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
- 337
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 1995.
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 18 March 1995
2 m awayRef 1995440DW0062
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 31 August 2017
2 m awayRef 2017440340170
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 18 October 1990
2 m awayRef 1990440DW0240
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A3376 in the New Forest, 30 July 2017
3 m awayRef 2017440293416
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 26 April 2015
3 m awayRef 2015440140119
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 18 May 2019
5 m awayRef 2019440171401
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Almera)
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 2013440116260 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 2013.