A35 crash in the New Forest on 14 December 2017 at 17:15 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A35 in the New Forest at 17:15 on Thursday 14 December 2017. The 68-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2017
- Thursday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83157, longitude -1.64778, in the SO42 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440485117
- 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
- 35
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 103 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 May 2025.
Serious
Mercedes AMG Class crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 7 May 2025
103 m awayRef 2025440197708
Slight
Huoniao HN 125 crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 9 November 2012
226 m awayRef 2012440437695
Fatal
Car crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 23 December 1981
242 m awayRef 1981440DG0250
Serious
Mitsubishi Mirage crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 6 September 2023
249 m awayRef 2023440361795
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 20 December 2018
309 m awayRef 2018440472757
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 6 February 1998
325 m awayRef 1998440DW0038
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- 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 2017440485117 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.