Unclassified road crash in Southampton SO16 on 18 December 2025 at 16:55 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Southampton at 16:55 on Thursday 18 December 2025. The 36-year-old female driver of vehicle 1, an 11-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 and a 12-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Thursday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93708, longitude -1.45376, in the SO16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Redbridge, Southampton, SO16 5NG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southampton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440570951
- Council area
- Southampton
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 1990.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A3057 in Southampton, 29 September 1990
12 m awayRef 1990440YS0620
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 14 February 2003
17 m awayRef 2003440SY0132
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3057 in Southampton, 28 October 1997
19 m awayRef 1997440YS0610
Slight
Car crash on the A3057 in Southampton, 15 June 1984
31 m awayRef 1984440YS0325
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A3057 in Southampton, 23 March 1995
31 m awayRef 1995440YS0193
Slight
Car crash on the A3057 in Southampton, 16 October 1983
31 m awayRef 1983440YS0561
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2025440570951 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southampton road accident statistics for 2025.