Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO40 on 25 August 2017 at 11:00 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4, a Honda Civic and a Vauxhall Tigra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 11:00 on Friday 25 August 2017. A 35-year-old female passenger in the Audi A4 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
- 25 Aug 2017
- Friday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Audi A4 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89019, longitude -1.45138, in the SO40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Marchwood. 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
- 2017440329274
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 2025.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 1 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025440494198
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 3 August 1989
5 m awayRef 1989440EH0199
Serious
Renault Master crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 27 September 2011
7 m awayRef 2011440410755
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 5 November 2015
8 m awayRef 2015440384732
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 18 October 2006
14 m awayRef 2006440419175
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 9 September 2014
29 m awayRef 2014440326989
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Tigra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- 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
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2017440329274 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.