A31 crash in the New Forest on 15 May 2015 at 04:40 involving a Ford Streetka
A Ford Streetka crashed on the A31 in the New Forest at 04:40 on Friday 15 May 2015. The 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 2015
- Friday, 04:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Streetka
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89867, longitude -1.65156, in the SO43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015440163177
- 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, 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 1990.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 11 July 1990
9 m awayRef 1990440EL0143
Slight
Car crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 8 July 1991
31 m awayRef 1991440EL0107
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 29 August 2003
36 m awayRef 2003440DL0203
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 14 April 2025
43 m awayRef 2025440163203
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 17 December 2004
44 m awayRef 2004440DL0258
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 22 December 1998
49 m awayRef 1998440DL0346
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Streetka
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Streetka)
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 2015440163177 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.