Serious unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO40 on 23 March 2017 at 15:05 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Renault Trafic van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 15:05 on Thursday 23 March 2017. The 69-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Mar 2017
- Thursday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Renault Trafic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9056, longitude -1.47508, in the SO40 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marchwood & Eling, New Forest, SO40 9FX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440108797
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 89%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 11%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 15 March 2017.
Serious
Scania crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 15 March 2017
1 m awayRef 2017440096782
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 8 February 2013
2 m awayRef 2013440050809
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 14 October 2015
2 m awayRef 2015440357113
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 10 October 2025
6 m awayRef 2025440459620
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 15 February 2010
6 m awayRef 2010440063887
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in the New Forest, 20 January 2003
6 m awayRef 2003440DH0019
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017440108797 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 2017.