A337 crash in the New Forest on 15 February 2014 at 06:20 involving a Mitsubishi Colt
A Mitsubishi Colt crashed on the A337 in the New Forest at 06:20 on Saturday 15 February 2014. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2014
- Saturday, 06:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi Colt
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8788, longitude -1.57723, in the SO43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lyndhurst.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014440054887
- 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
- 337
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 2021.
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 9 May 2021
1 m awayRef 2021440178245
Slight
Vauxhall Astramax crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 12 June 2000
33 m awayRef 2000440DL0118
Serious
Hyundai Santa Fe crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 19 June 2009
34 m awayRef 2009440266199
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 4 September 2012
39 m awayRef 2012440346682
Slight
Car crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 13 February 1987
56 m awayRef 1987440EL0025
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 14 March 1999
56 m awayRef 1999440DL0064
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Colt
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Colt)
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 2014440054887 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 2014.