Unclassified road crash in Southampton SO18 on 14 March 2008 at 11:40 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa, a Fiat Punto and a Ford Galaxy were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Southampton at 11:40 on Friday 14 March 2008. A 17-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa, the 20-year-old female driver of the Fiat Punto and a 22-year-old female passenger in the Ford Galaxy were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 2008
- Friday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Corsa and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91895, longitude -1.35779, in the SO18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Peartree, Southampton, SO19 7LW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440111500
- Council area
- Southampton
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 20 August 2002
At the same spotRef 2002440ST0493
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 19 December 2011
At the same spotRef 2011440530751
Slight
Kawasaki ZR750 crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 7 October 2006
At the same spotRef 2006440401618
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A27 in Southampton, 28 November 2001
At the same spotRef 2001440ST0681
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 29 May 2003
At the same spotRef 2003440ST0330
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 2 April 2012
7 m awayRef 2012440130205
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Galaxy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,792 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Galaxy)
- 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 2008440111500 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.