M3 crash in Winchester on 9 May 2008 at 03:00 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic crashed on the M3 in Winchester at 03:00 on Friday 9 May 2008. The 32-year-old male driver was 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
- 9 May 2008
- Friday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07577, longitude -1.29267, in the SO23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Alresford and Itchen Valley, Winchester, SO23 7SS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440200302
- Council area
- Winchester
- 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
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
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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2010.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the M3 in Winchester, 24 June 2010
28 m awayRef 2010440261575
Slight
Car crash on the M3 in Winchester, 25 January 2008
40 m awayRef 2008440034493
Serious
Car crash on the A33 in Winchester, 5 November 1982
64 m awayRef 1982440OC0418
Slight
Bedford crash on the M3 in Winchester, 23 December 1993
64 m awayRef 1993440OC0878
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A33 in Winchester, 21 November 1990
64 m awayRef 1990440OC0933
Slight
Toyota Space Cruiser crash on the M3 in Winchester, 16 January 2004
80 m awayRef 2004440OC0119
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
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 2008440200302 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Winchester road accident statistics for 2008.