A326 crash in the New Forest on 16 November 2025 at 11:05 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A326 in the New Forest at 11:05 on Sunday 16 November 2025. The 36-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was 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
- 16 Nov 2025
- Sunday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Fabia and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8313, longitude -1.37928, in the SO45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Holbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hardley, Holbury & North Blackfield, New Forest, SO45 2NX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440518290
- 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
- 326
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2013.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 1 February 2013
4 m awayRef 2013440041136
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 30 January 2002
11 m awayRef 2002440DH0021
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 3 October 2001
11 m awayRef 2001440DH0269
Serious
Renault 21 crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 27 April 1992
11 m awayRef 1992440DH0077
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 9 May 1985
13 m awayRef 1985440EH0109
Serious
Car crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 16 March 1982
17 m awayRef 1982440DH0053
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2025440518290 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.