M27 crash in Test Valley on 14 August 2007 at 14:50 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara crashed on the M27 in Test Valley at 14:50 on Tuesday 14 August 2007. The 43-year-old male driver and a 4-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2007
- Tuesday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9614, longitude -1.39167, in the SO53 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 Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007440377572
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with 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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 1993.
Slight
Fiat 127 crash on the M27 in Eastleigh, 21 January 1993
28 m awayRef 1993440LA0019
Serious
Minibus crash on the A33 in Eastleigh, 24 May 1980
28 m awayRef 1980440GA0177
Slight
Van crash on the A33 in Test Valley, 3 August 1979
28 m awayRef 1979440GA0268
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 19 February 2016
32 m awayRef 2016440073893
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the M3 in Eastleigh, 26 January 1999
42 m awayRef 1999440LA0083
Slight
Car crash on the A33 in Eastleigh, 20 June 1986
45 m awayRef 1986440LA0315
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2007440377572 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 2007.