A27 crash in Fareham on 1 September 2010 at 20:43 involving a Mercedes CLS Class
A Mercedes CLS Class and a Peugeot Expert taxi were involved in a crash on the A27 in Fareham at 20:43 on Wednesday 1 September 2010. A 26-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes CLS Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 2010
- Wednesday, 20:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes CLS Class and Peugeot Expert
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85318, longitude -1.16676, in the PO16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wallington & Downend, Fareham, PO16 8RW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fareham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010440371975
- Council area
- Fareham
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 27
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Fareham, 16 August 2006
At the same spotRef 2006440321182
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A27 in Fareham, 4 April 1983
At the same spotRef 1983440HF0153
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Fareham, 3 September 1985
At the same spotRef 1985440HF0366
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A27 in Fareham, 14 October 1983
At the same spotRef 1983440HF0451
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A27 in Fareham, 9 April 1991
At the same spotRef 1991440HF0167
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A27 in Fareham, 20 May 1985
At the same spotRef 1985440HF0214
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes CLS Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,966 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Expert
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes CLS Class)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2010440371975 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fareham road accident statistics for 2010.