A337 crash in the New Forest on 5 December 2016 at 09:35 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Honda CRV were involved in a crash on the A337 in the New Forest at 09:35 on Monday 5 December 2016. The 36-year-old female driver of the Honda CRV was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2016
- Monday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Honda CRV
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74976, longitude -1.55582, in the SO41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lymington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pennington, New Forest, SO41 8DY 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
- 2016440457564
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 1995.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 19 August 1995
4 m awayRef 1995440DG0162
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 13 November 2025
6 m awayRef 2025440514101
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 8 June 2023
7 m awayRef 2023440226340
Slight
Minibus crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 18 September 1986
8 m awayRef 1986440DG0152
Slight
Fiat Mirafiori crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 23 January 1990
8 m awayRef 1990440DG0019
Slight
Car crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 28 March 1987
8 m awayRef 1987440DG0060
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda CRV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- 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
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda CRV)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2016440457564 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 2016.