A35 crash in the New Forest on 14 June 2025 at 06:37 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A35 in the New Forest at 06:37 on Saturday 14 June 2025. The 19-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jun 2025
- Saturday, 06:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89247, longitude -1.52248, in the SO40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashurst. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashurst, Bramshaw, Copythorne & Netley Marsh, New Forest, SO40 7FF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440260667
- 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
- 35
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 2008.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 27 July 2008
8 m awayRef 2008440332308
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 2 February 2008
12 m awayRef 2008440047769
Fatal
Car crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 12 September 1983
13 m awayRef 1983440ET0150
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 2 October 2009
13 m awayRef 2009440429877
Serious
Kia Sportage crash on the A35 in the New Forest, 27 March 2008
16 m awayRef 2008440130763
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A36 in the New Forest, 9 November 2014
16 m awayRef 2014440403473
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025440260667 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.