M3 crash in Basingstoke and Deane on 2 September 1994 at 08:45 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane at 08:45 on Friday 2 September 1994. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Sep 1994
- Friday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20586, longitude -1.18403, in the RG25 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994440BB0946
- Council area
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 3
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 17 July 1980
At the same spotRef 1980440BS0136
Serious
Car crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 1 April 1983
At the same spotRef 1983440BS0063
Slight
Mercedes crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 9 May 2013
43 m awayRef 2013440167094
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 21 January 2007
54 m awayRef 2007440031070
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 18 December 2022
68 m awayRef 2022440509026
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 25 September 2003
70 m awayRef 2003440BB1174
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 1994440BB0946 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Basingstoke and Deane road accident statistics for 1994.