A337 crash in the New Forest on 22 December 2014 at 16:00 involving a Vauxhall Combo
A Vauxhall Combo and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on the A337 in the New Forest at 16:00 on Monday 22 December 2014. The 23-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo and the 69-year-old female driver of the Ford KA were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2014
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Combo and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90873, longitude -1.58104, in the SO40 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014440455042
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 2015.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 17 September 2015
4 m awayRef 2015440322559
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 2 March 2021
4 m awayRef 2021440077922
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 3 April 2003
4 m awayRef 2003440DL0074
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 25 July 2005
4 m awayRef 2005440598907
Serious
Honda ST1100A crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 29 January 2008
4 m awayRef 2008440041995
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 14 December 2001
4 m awayRef 2001440DL0259
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Combo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
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 2014440455042 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.