B3401 crash on the Isle of Wight on 4 November 2012 at 02:08 involving a taxi
A taxi crashed on the B3401 on the Isle of Wight at 02:08 on Sunday 4 November 2012. A 37-year-old female passenger and a 37-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2012
- Sunday, 02:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68585, longitude -1.3663, in the PO30 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012440430243
- Council area
- Isle of Wight
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3401
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 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, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 29 May 2020.
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B3401 on the Isle of Wight, 8 May 2014
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3401 on the Isle of Wight, 21 December 2009
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Fatal
Mazda 6 crash on the B3401 on the Isle of Wight, 7 April 2024
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Serious
Audi A3 crash on the B3401 on the Isle of Wight, 15 April 2016
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Serious
Van crash on the B3401 on the Isle of Wight, 30 June 1984
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 37, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 37, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2012440430243 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Wight road accident statistics for 2012.