Serious unclassified road crash in the New Forest SO43 on 20 September 2025 at 12:00 involving an Audi Q4
A bicycle and an Audi Q4 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 12:00 on Saturday 20 September 2025. The 59-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Sep 2025
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Audi Q4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86434, longitude -1.65098, in the SO43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440454737
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 66 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 28 October 1989
66 m awayRef 1989440EL0245
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 14 July 1982
70 m awayRef 1982440DL0113
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 25 March 2008
89 m awayRef 2008440128341
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 23 November 1980
163 m awayRef 1980440DL0197
Serious
Lancia Thema crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 16 February 1992
229 m awayRef 1992440DL0030
Slight
Kawasaki crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 21 June 1992
476 m awayRef 1992440DL0106
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Vehicle 2: Audi Q4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 59, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 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 2025440454737 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.