A327 crash in Hart on 29 October 2008 at 06:45 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5, a Citroen C4 and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A327 in Hart at 06:45 on Wednesday 29 October 2008. The 34-year-old male driver of the Citroen C4 and the 27-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 2008
- Wednesday, 06:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mazda MX-5 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30409, longitude -0.79741, in the GU17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St John's, Rushmoor, GU14 9XX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hart
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440480975
- Council area
- Hart
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 327
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Motorway
- Second road number
- 3
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 2012.
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A327 in Hart, 27 June 2012
18 m awayRef 2012440247901
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A327 in Rushmoor, 20 August 2002
28 m awayRef 2002440AA1241
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A327 in Hart, 28 April 2015
34 m awayRef 2015440142918
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A327 in Hart, 6 October 2021
35 m awayRef 2021440401234
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on the A327 in Rushmoor, 7 July 1997
36 m awayRef 1997440AA0899
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the M3 in Hart, 19 February 2025
38 m awayRef 2025440075656
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C4)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Focus)
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 2008440480975 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hart road accident statistics for 2008.