M3 crash in Eastleigh on 27 January 2005 at 01:30 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the M3 in Eastleigh at 01:30 on Thursday 27 January 2005. A 9-year-old male passenger in the BMW 3 Series and the 38-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jan 2005
- Thursday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01115, longitude -1.34668, in the SO21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery, Winchester, SO21 2DX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005445WE0053
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 2016.
Slight
Hyundai i30 crash on the M3 in Winchester, 16 August 2016
9 m awayRef 2016440307335
Slight
Scania crash on the M3 in Winchester, 18 May 2004
10 m awayRef 2004440OC0659
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the M3 in Winchester, 21 January 2005
10 m awayRef 2005445OC0089
Slight
Car crash on the A33 in Winchester, 30 December 1984
10 m awayRef 1984440OT0231
Slight
Lorry crash on the A33 in Winchester, 16 March 1988
14 m awayRef 1988440OC0216
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M3 in Test Valley, 27 August 2004
14 m awayRef 2004440WE0663
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2005445WE0053 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 2005.