A32 crash in the New Forest on 10 August 2018 at 15:00 involving a Kia Sportage
A Kia Sportage and a Fiat Seicento were involved in a crash on the A32 in the New Forest at 15:00 on Friday 10 August 2018. A 72-year-old female passenger in the Fiat Seicento and a 55-year-old female passenger in the Fiat Seicento were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2018
- Friday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Sportage and Fiat Seicento
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90257, longitude -1.50266, in the SO40 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Totton South, New Forest, SO40 7EP 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
- 2018440303016
- 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
- 32
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 326
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 2007.
Slight
Volvo S80 crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 21 August 2007
9 m awayRef 2007440388113
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 3 July 2011
18 m awayRef 2011440277060
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 11 October 1997
23 m awayRef 1997440DT0236
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 31 August 1997
23 m awayRef 1997440DT0193
Serious
Honda CB1000 crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 4 August 2013
23 m awayRef 2013440290817
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 29 January 2012
25 m awayRef 2012440041402
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go 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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,591 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Fiat Seicento
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Seicento)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Seicento)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2018440303016 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 2018.