A3024 crash in Southampton on 19 February 2008 at 07:20 involving a Mercedes E Class
A car and a Mercedes E Class were involved in a crash on the A3024 in Southampton at 07:20 on Tuesday 19 February 2008. The 20-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Feb 2008
- Tuesday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.907, longitude -1.34316, in the SO19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thornhill, Southampton, SO19 0HP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southampton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440073494
- Council area
- Southampton
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3024
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A3024 in Southampton, 26 April 1989
At the same spotRef 1989440TB0224
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A3024 in Southampton, 11 September 2003
At the same spotRef 2003440ST0567
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A3024 in Southampton, 24 June 2002
At the same spotRef 2002440ST0381
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3024 in Southampton, 21 September 1989
At the same spotRef 1989440TB0541
Serious
Mitsubishi Space Star crash on the A3024 in Southampton, 23 March 2011
At the same spotRef 2011440120787
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A3024 in Southampton, 24 October 2006
At the same spotRef 2006440429335
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2008440073494 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southampton road accident statistics for 2008.