Serious unclassified road crash in the New Forest BH25 on 30 May 2025 at 16:04 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza, a Fiat 500 and a Kia Niro were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 16:04 on Friday 30 May 2025. There were five casualties: three people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 May 2025
- Friday, 16:04
- Vehicles
- 3
- Seat Ibiza and 2 others
- Casualties
- 5
- 3 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75305, longitude -1.65551, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440236227
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3058
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2014.
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 27 December 2014
1 m awayRef 2014440459062
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 21 November 2007
4 m awayRef 2007440536139
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 29 May 2003
4 m awayRef 2003440DW0147
Slight
Peugeot Kisbee crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 6 February 2017
8 m awayRef 2017440046946
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 14 April 1984
13 m awayRef 1984440DW0102
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 22 February 2016
13 m awayRef 2016440076509
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 875 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 3: Kia Niro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 30 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat 500)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat 500)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Kia Niro)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 100 km
Casualty 6: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Kia Niro)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 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 2025440236227 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.