M3 crash in Test Valley on 1 December 2007 at 13:50 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the M3 in Test Valley at 13:50 on Saturday 1 December 2007. The 22-year-old male driver of the Ford KA was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2007
- Saturday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95961, longitude -1.39411, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007440552189
- 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
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 33
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 1991.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A33 in Eastleigh, 25 November 1991
10 m awayRef 1991440LA0583
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the M3 in Eastleigh, 11 December 2003
22 m awayRef 2003440LA0986
Slight
Alfa Romeo GT crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 23 June 2007
30 m awayRef 2007440290860
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M3 in Test Valley, 26 August 2005
50 m awayRef 2005440643579
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M3 in Eastleigh, 15 March 2001
54 m awayRef 2001440LA0229
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the M3 in Eastleigh, 5 January 2000
54 m awayRef 2000440LA0009
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 2007440552189 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.