Serious A323 crash in Rushmoor on 1 May 2008 at 16:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A323 in Rushmoor at 16:15 on Thursday 1 May 2008. The 51-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured and the 45-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 17-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 May 2008
- Thursday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26746, longitude -0.79506, in the GU11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushmoor
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440188205
- Council area
- Rushmoor
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 323
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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
- 90%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 10%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 May 2008.
Serious
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the A323 in Rushmoor, 28 May 2008
10 m awayRef 2008440233022
Slight
Car crash on the A323 in Rushmoor, 7 July 2008
10 m awayRef 2008440299250
Slight
Ducati crash on the A323 in Rushmoor, 22 May 2010
14 m awayRef 2010440208676
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A323 in Hart, 1 July 1996
20 m awayRef 1996440AA0395
Slight
Ford Maverick crash on the A323 in Rushmoor, 18 December 2011
20 m awayRef 2011440529442
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A323 in Rushmoor, 1 September 1999
28 m awayRef 1999440AA1326
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2008440188205 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rushmoor road accident statistics for 2008.