Unclassified road crash in Winchester SO32 on 5 March 2009 at 21:52 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Winchester at 21:52 on Thursday 5 March 2009. The 34-year-old male driver of the BMW 5 Series, a 9-year-old female passenger in the BMW 5 Series and the 61-year-old male driver of the Audi A4 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 2009
- Thursday, 21:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93573, longitude -1.20614, in the SO32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waltham Chase. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central Meon Valley, Winchester, SO32 2TS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009440097732
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 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, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 May 1983.
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 19 May 1983
20 m awayRef 1983440HB0071
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 13 June 1993
30 m awayRef 1993440HB0151
Slight
Ford Grand C-Max crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 2 January 2025
34 m awayRef 2025440002168
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 30 November 2003
41 m awayRef 2003440HB0334
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 23 May 2008
41 m awayRef 2008440224526
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 31 October 1995
50 m awayRef 1995440HB0243
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
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 2009440097732 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 2009.