A337 crash in the New Forest on 16 December 2018 at 18:00 involving a Honda CRV
A Honda CRV and a Land Rover Discovery were involved in a crash on the A337 in the New Forest at 18:00 on Sunday 16 December 2018. A 75-year-old female passenger in the Honda CRV was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CRV and Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87949, longitude -1.57727, in the SO43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lyndhurst.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440467576
- 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
- 337
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Raining with 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 2016.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 25 September 2016
4 m awayRef 2016440362541
Serious
Lorry crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 7 August 1986
6 m awayRef 1986440EL0140
Slight
Car crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 26 May 1987
6 m awayRef 1987440EL0097
Serious
MAN crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 30 January 2018
7 m awayRef 2018440039018
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 12 April 2006
7 m awayRef 2006440136946
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 28 March 2007
7 m awayRef 2007440142285
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CRV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda CRV)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018440467576 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.