M27 crash in the New Forest on 30 August 2025 at 20:09 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the M27 in the New Forest at 20:09 on Saturday 30 August 2025. The 32-year-old male driver and a 29-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a flooded dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 2025
- Saturday, 20:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94603, longitude -1.52925, in the SO51 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashurst, Bramshaw, Copythorne & Netley Marsh, New Forest, SO51 6AF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440393170
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 27
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2007.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the M27 in the New Forest, 6 December 2007
9 m awayRef 2007440559076
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A36 in the New Forest, 5 May 1998
11 m awayRef 1998440DL0118
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A36 in the New Forest, 4 August 2000
11 m awayRef 2000440DL0159
Slight
Yamaha crash on the M27 in the New Forest, 17 January 2011
22 m awayRef 2011440022985
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M27 in the New Forest, 6 February 2007
22 m awayRef 2007440057644
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the M27 in the New Forest, 12 July 2012
26 m awayRef 2012440268539
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025440393170 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.