M27 crash in Test Valley on 9 November 2004 at 17:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on the M27 in Test Valley at 17:30 on Tuesday 9 November 2004. A 17-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Nov 2004
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95996, longitude -1.42771, in the SO16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chilworth, Nursling & Rownhams, Test Valley, SO16 7PZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004440WE0897
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 27
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 1992.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 17 September 1992
10 m awayRef 1992440LR0251
Slight
Kawasaki ZG1000 crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 18 December 1996
10 m awayRef 1996440LA0858
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 15 February 2017
11 m awayRef 2017440058666
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 4 March 2006
14 m awayRef 2006440084126
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 5 December 2013
15 m awayRef 2013440457970
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 29 November 2007
32 m awayRef 2007440549917
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes C Class)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2004440WE0897 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Test Valley road accident statistics for 2004.