M3 crash in Test Valley on 13 October 2013 at 19:46 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5 crashed on the M3 in Test Valley at 19:46 on Sunday 13 October 2013. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Oct 2013
- Sunday, 19:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95544, longitude -1.40207, in the SO16 postcode district. 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
- 2013440388915
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 2004.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the M3 in Test Valley, 24 March 2004
5 m awayRef 2004440LA0233
Fatal
Car crash on the A33 in Eastleigh, 12 May 1988
19 m awayRef 1988440LA0278
Slight
Honda CG125 crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 17 February 2012
34 m awayRef 2012440066580
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 18 September 2000
46 m awayRef 2000440LR0280
Serious
Peugeot 406 crash on a C road in Eastleigh, 25 January 2001
55 m awayRef 2001440LA0084
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Test Valley, 11 August 1985
59 m awayRef 1985440LR0245
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
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 2013440388915 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 2013.