M27 crash in Test Valley on 1 October 2009 at 08:45 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
Five vehicles, including a DAF Trucks lorry and a car, were involved in a crash on the M27 in Test Valley at 08:45 on Thursday 1 October 2009. The 26-year-old female driver of the car, a 28-year-old female passenger in the car and the 23-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 2009
- Thursday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 5
- DAF Trucks and 4 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94882, longitude -1.46799, in the SO16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chilworth, Nursling & Rownhams, Test Valley, SO16 0AJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009440427489
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 27
- Road type
- Slip road
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Motorway
- Second road number
- 27
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 13 November 2015
8 m awayRef 2015440395390
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 14 December 2010
10 m awayRef 2010440524160
Serious
Scania crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 25 May 2023
13 m awayRef 2023440206742
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 12 July 2006
14 m awayRef 2006440265542
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 18 September 2010
14 m awayRef 2010440398201
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 2 June 2007
14 m awayRef 2007440253557
Vehicles involved (5)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 4: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,226 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 5: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2009440427489 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Test Valley road accident statistics for 2009.