M3 crash in Test Valley on 12 February 2012 at 14:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the M3 in Test Valley at 14:15 on Sunday 12 February 2012. The 40-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 2012
- Sunday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96054, longitude -1.40431, in the SO16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chilworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chilworth, Nursling & Rownhams, Test Valley, SO16 7LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012440060020
- 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
- 3
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2015.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 20 September 2015
19 m awayRef 2015440326887
Slight
Mercedes crash on the M3 in Test Valley, 18 December 1995
40 m awayRef 1995440LA0707
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 23 March 1992
145 m awayRef 1992440LR0088
Serious
Car crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 20 March 1980
154 m awayRef 1980440DC0067
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 21 January 1986
154 m awayRef 1986440LR0025
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 25 March 2008
170 m awayRef 2008440127367
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,172 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2012440060020 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 2012.