M3 crash in Eastleigh on 9 November 2001 at 21:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the M3 in Eastleigh at 21:30 on Friday 9 November 2001. The 26-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and the 23-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Nov 2001
- Friday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95979, longitude -1.3934, in the SO16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chilworth, Nursling & Rownhams, Test Valley, SO16 7LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastleigh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001440LA0912
- Council area
- Eastleigh
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 10 August 1994.
Slight
Nissan Cherry crash on the M3 in Eastleigh, 10 August 1994
At the same spotRef 1994440LA0390
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the M3 in Eastleigh, 22 February 2000
At the same spotRef 2000440LA0170
Slight
Car crash on the A33 in Test Valley, 10 November 1980
At the same spotRef 1980440GA0376
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the M3 in Test Valley, 10 March 2014
20 m awayRef 2014440084561
Slight
Alfa Romeo GT crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 23 June 2007
28 m awayRef 2007440290860
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the M3 in Test Valley, 9 December 2019
36 m awayRef 2019440442158
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2001440LA0912 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Eastleigh road accident statistics for 2001.