Serious A3 crash in East Hampshire on 30 December 1995 at 09:40 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A3 in East Hampshire at 09:40 on Saturday 30 December 1995. The 64-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Dec 1995
- Saturday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98381, longitude -0.9637, in the GU32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hampshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995440PT0974
- Council area
- East Hampshire
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 February 2025.
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 16 February 2025
11 m awayRef 2025440072099
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 6 May 2016
33 m awayRef 2016440169757
Serious
Dacia Duster crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 1 February 2025
38 m awayRef 2025440048452
Slight
Audi Q2 crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 21 April 2025
49 m awayRef 2025440172817
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 5 February 2019
82 m awayRef 2019440043787
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 16 April 1987
106 m awayRef 1987440PP0078
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 1995440PT0974 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Hampshire road accident statistics for 1995.