Unclassified road crash in the New Forest BH24 on 30 May 2025 at 16:51 involving a Ford B-Max
A Ford B-Max and a Ford Ecosport were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 16:51 on Friday 30 May 2025. An 8-year-old male passenger in the Ford B-Max was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 May 2025
- Friday, 16:51
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford B-Max and Ford Ecosport
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84641, longitude -1.72415, in the BH24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440236291
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 69 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 2014.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 16 November 2014
69 m awayRef 2014440411717
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 14 June 1986
177 m awayRef 1986440DR0120
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 10 November 2025
179 m awayRef 2025440508934
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 29 July 1987
217 m awayRef 1987440DR0136
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in the New Forest, 6 October 1988
257 m awayRef 1988440DR0177
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 14 October 1984
280 m awayRef 1984440DR0204
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford B-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 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: Ford Ecosport
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford B-Max)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2025440236291 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.