M27 crash in Test Valley on 12 December 2011 at 23:31 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the M27 in Test Valley at 23:31 on Monday 12 December 2011. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2011
- Monday, 23:31
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94789, longitude -1.38843, in the SO16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011440522536
- 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
- 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
- Raining with 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2012.
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 5 November 2012
12 m awayRef 2012440432583
Serious
Mazda RX8 crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 8 July 2012
16 m awayRef 2012440262150
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 19 November 2008
22 m awayRef 2008440514862
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 20 October 2008
32 m awayRef 2008440468010
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 23 April 2011
41 m awayRef 2011440169285
Slight
Volvo crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 12 May 2022
43 m awayRef 2022440186528
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2011440522536 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 2011.