Serious A337 crash in the New Forest on 17 June 2025 at 16:45 involving a Ford Galaxy
Four vehicles, including a Ford Galaxy and a Yamaha MT motorcycle, were involved in a crash on the A337 in the New Forest at 16:45 on Tuesday 17 June 2025. The 20-year-old male rider of the Yamaha MT motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Jun 2025
- Tuesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Galaxy and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74678, longitude -1.5626, in the SO41 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pennington, New Forest, SO41 8DY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440266375
- 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
- 337
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 93%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 7%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 November 2022.
Serious
Jaguar XF Series crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 7 November 2022
3 m awayRef 2022440452648
Slight
Car crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 11 May 1986
6 m awayRef 1986440DG0070
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 23 May 2004
6 m awayRef 2004440DG0106
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 23 December 1990
16 m awayRef 1990440DG0233
Serious
MG Metro crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 8 May 1994
42 m awayRef 1994440DG0058
Serious
Rover 800 Series crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 31 July 1995
52 m awayRef 1995440DG0147
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Yamaha MT
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 689 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 3: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 4: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha MT)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 2025440266375 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.