A354 crash in the New Forest on 13 October 2018 at 03:14 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A354 in the New Forest at 03:14 on Saturday 13 October 2018. A 60-year-old female passenger in the Citroen C3 and the 32-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Oct 2018
- Saturday, 03:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C3 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98869, longitude -1.92829, in the SP6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440385310
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 354
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 2024.
Slight
Car crash on the A354 in the New Forest, 17 September 2024
5 m awayRef 2024440399936
Serious
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A354 in the New Forest, 5 September 2018
6 m awayRef 2018440336563
Serious
Fiat Ducato crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 17 November 2025
6 m awayRef 2025440519584
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A354 in the New Forest, 26 January 2018
7 m awayRef 2018440034512
Slight
Jaguar S Type crash on the A354 in the New Forest, 10 August 2001
10 m awayRef 2001440DF0076
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A354 in the New Forest, 21 January 1995
10 m awayRef 1995440DF0004
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018440385310 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.