A31 crash in the New Forest on 3 February 2025 at 16:04 involving a Peugeot 107
A Peugeot 107 and a Volkswagen Scirocco were involved in a crash on the A31 in the New Forest at 16:04 on Monday 3 February 2025. The 21-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 107 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 2025
- Monday, 16:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 107 and Volkswagen Scirocco
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8789, longitude -1.68577, in the SO43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440051221
- 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
- 31
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Daylight
- 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, 16 metres away, was a fatal crash on 19 April 2025.
Fatal
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 19 April 2025
16 m awayRef 2025440169763
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 27 October 2004
33 m awayRef 2004440DR0269
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 18 May 2000
74 m awayRef 2000440DR0097
Serious
Renault 19 crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 22 February 2004
80 m awayRef 2004440DR0046
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 10 February 2020
98 m awayRef 2020440052388
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A31 in the New Forest, 5 April 2017
101 m awayRef 2017440126341
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 107
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Scirocco
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 107)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2025440051221 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 2025.