A3 crash in East Hampshire on 27 May 2012 at 01:48 involving a Renault Scenic
A bicycle and a Renault Scenic were involved in a crash on the A3 in East Hampshire at 01:48 on Sunday 27 May 2012. The 15-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 May 2012
- Sunday, 01:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Renault Scenic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07231, longitude -0.87728, in the GU33 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitehill Hogmoor & Greatham, East Hampshire, GU33 6DQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hampshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012440203350
- Council area
- East Hampshire
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- 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
- 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 serious injury crash on 29 May 2011.
Serious
Suzuki SV 1000 crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 29 May 2011
19 m awayRef 2011440222741
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 15 November 2024
43 m awayRef 2024440497726
Fatal
Nissan Micra crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 25 October 1993
67 m awayRef 1993440PT0720
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 17 July 2013
77 m awayRef 2013440264691
Slight
Lorry crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 8 June 1994
84 m awayRef 1994440PT0417
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 13 July 2018
85 m awayRef 2018440264615
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Scenic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 15, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2012440203350 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Hampshire road accident statistics for 2012.