A337 crash in the New Forest on 3 August 2025 at 00:57 involving a Suzuki Alto
A Suzuki Alto crashed on the A337 in the New Forest at 00:57 on Sunday 3 August 2025. The 67-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2025
- Sunday, 00:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Alto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74457, longitude -1.57366, in the SO41 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440347607
- 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
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 1991.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 30 March 1991
23 m awayRef 1991440DW0083
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 13 November 1996
36 m awayRef 1996440DG0269
Slight
Car crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 17 February 2018
55 m awayRef 2018440064125
Slight
Lexmoto ZSX 125 crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 11 June 2016
60 m awayRef 2016440218542
Slight
Nissan X-Trail crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 10 December 2015
74 m awayRef 2015440432129
Serious
MAN crash on the A337 in the New Forest, 14 March 1991
77 m awayRef 1991440DW0069
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Alto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Alto)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025440347607 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.