A323 crash in Hart on 21 December 2011 at 22:00 involving a Mazda RX8
A Mazda RX8 and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the A323 in Hart at 22:00 on Wednesday 21 December 2011. The 27-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Passat and a 29-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Passat were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda RX8 and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27627, longitude -0.82064, in the GU51 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fleet East, Hart, GU51 3HJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hart
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011440534201
- Council area
- Hart
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 323
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 1999.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A323 in Hart, 21 March 1999
14 m awayRef 1999440AA0418
Slight
Car crash on the A323 in Hart, 6 February 1987
22 m awayRef 1987440AL0046
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Hart, 13 February 2005
28 m awayRef 2005445AA0197
Slight
Skoda Felicia crash on the A323 in Hart, 20 May 1998
30 m awayRef 1998440AA0696
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A323 in Hart, 19 March 2001
32 m awayRef 2001440AA0473
Slight
Bedford crash on the A323 in Hart, 18 January 1995
36 m awayRef 1995440AA0106
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda RX8
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,616 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- 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 2011440534201 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 2011.