Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO45 on 6 December 2018 at 22:50 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift crashed on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 22:50 on Thursday 6 December 2018. The 19-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2018
- Thursday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87471, longitude -1.43286, in the SO45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440456069
- 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
- 40 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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 5 October 1989
11 m awayRef 1989440EH0267
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 22 August 1986
11 m awayRef 1986440EH0225
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 28 July 2011
15 m awayRef 2011440318178
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 25 April 2011
32 m awayRef 2011440171990
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 19 June 1990
37 m awayRef 1990440EH0156
Serious
Lexmoto Aura crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 24 August 2025
38 m awayRef 2025440383523
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,490 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018440456069 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.