A31 crash in the New Forest on 9 March 2015 at 21:35 involving a car
A car crashed on the A31 in the New Forest at 21:35 on Monday 9 March 2015. The 44-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Mar 2015
- Monday, 21:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84539, longitude -1.80157, in the BH24 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Leonards & St Ives, Dorset, BH24 2AT 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
- 2015440081511
- 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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 7 September 2025.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 7 September 2025
4 m awayRef 2025440405606
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 5 January 2011
6 m awayRef 2011440005928
Slight
Volvo crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 29 July 1998
6 m awayRef 1998440DR0147
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 16 February 2018
14 m awayRef 2018440062523
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 14 December 2017
16 m awayRef 2017440485334
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 31 May 2009
18 m awayRef 2009440233646
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2015440081511 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 2015.