M27 crash in Test Valley on 24 March 2008 at 22:18 involving a car
A car crashed on the M27 in Test Valley at 22:18 on Monday 24 March 2008. The 48-year-old male driver and a 28-year-old female passenger 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
- 24 Mar 2008
- Monday, 22:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95912, longitude -1.43954, in the SO16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chilworth, Nursling & Rownhams, Test Valley, SO16 8AN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440126593
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 2015.
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 18 July 2015
7 m awayRef 2015440246756
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 7 January 2004
28 m awayRef 2004440LA0011
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 20 May 2004
30 m awayRef 2004440LA0387
Slight
Yamaha crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 20 April 2022
34 m awayRef 2022440155029
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 18 August 2024
34 m awayRef 2024440354044
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 21 May 2014
39 m awayRef 2014440177993
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2008440126593 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 2008.