M3 crash in Basingstoke and Deane on 5 February 2014 at 04:35 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series crashed on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane at 04:35 on Wednesday 5 February 2014. The 34-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 2014
- Wednesday, 04:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24258, longitude -1.09901, in the RG22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Basingstoke.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014440042146
- Council area
- Basingstoke and Deane
- 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
- 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
- Raining with 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 2019.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 2 April 2019
19 m awayRef 2019440113770
Slight
Car crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 1 September 1986
60 m awayRef 1986440BS0154
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 16 August 1993
60 m awayRef 1993440BB0916
Fatal
Mercedes S Class crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 17 April 1997
60 m awayRef 1997440BB0430
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 9 June 2002
60 m awayRef 2002440BB0745
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 22 March 1993
108 m awayRef 1993440BB0318
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
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 2014440042146 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Basingstoke and Deane road accident statistics for 2014.