A326 crash in the New Forest on 14 December 2015 at 08:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on the A326 in the New Forest at 08:40 on Monday 14 December 2015. The 33-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2015
- Monday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88545, longitude -1.45729, in the SO40 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marchwood & Eling, New Forest, SO40 4WY 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
- 2015440436772
- 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
- 326
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 December 2024.
Serious
Suzuki Ignis crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 18 December 2024
3 m awayRef 2024440549185
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 11 December 2024
5 m awayRef 2024440539721
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 11 May 2011
7 m awayRef 2011440194642
Slight
Volvo crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 14 January 2008
7 m awayRef 2008440017807
Serious
Honda crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 11 March 2012
9 m awayRef 2012440099652
Slight
Car crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 7 August 1985
13 m awayRef 1985440EH0189
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2015440436772 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.