Unclassified road crash in the New Forest BH25 on 15 March 2023 at 20:00 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 20:00 on Wednesday 15 March 2023. The 73-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Mar 2023
- Wednesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75152, longitude -1.66431, in the BH25 postcode district and within the built-up area of New Milton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Milton, New Forest, BH25 6DY 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
- 2023440104667
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 2002.
Slight
Honda NE50M crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 22 November 2002
2 m awayRef 2002440DW0313
Serious
KTM 125 Duke crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 30 May 2025
9 m awayRef 2025440236763
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 5 April 2009
12 m awayRef 2009440146967
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in the New Forest, 6 October 1983
21 m awayRef 1983440DW0192
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 31 January 1987
24 m awayRef 1987440DW0022
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 30 September 1986
25 m awayRef 1986440DW0246
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- 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 2023440104667 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 2023.