M3 crash in Hart on 28 January 2009 at 03:35 involving a Volvo lorry
A Volvo lorry and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the M3 in Hart at 03:35 on Wednesday 28 January 2009. The 21-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jan 2009
- Wednesday, 03:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27234, longitude -0.95636, in the RG29 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hook, Hart, RG27 9AA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hart
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009440039704
- Council area
- Hart
- 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
- 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 serious injury crash on 21 December 1993.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M3 in Hart, 21 December 1993
At the same spotRef 1993440AA0785
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the M3 in Hart, 15 March 1999
At the same spotRef 1999440AA0393
Slight
Car crash on the M3 in Hart, 30 June 1987
At the same spotRef 1987440AL0177
Serious
Mazda MX-5 crash on the M3 in Hart, 26 August 2002
At the same spotRef 2002440AA1265
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the M3 in Hart, 23 April 2001
10 m awayRef 2001440AA0673
Slight
Van crash on the M3 in Hart, 6 July 2012
14 m awayRef 2012440261498
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,480 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2009440039704 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 2009.