M3 crash in Winchester on 10 July 2014 at 18:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on the M3 in Winchester at 18:30 on Thursday 10 July 2014. The 25-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jul 2014
- Thursday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03191, longitude -1.32623, in the SO21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery, Winchester, SO21 2BD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014440246076
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 April 2007.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the M3 in Winchester, 4 April 2007
4 m awayRef 2007440153303
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the M3 in Winchester, 9 February 2010
14 m awayRef 2010440055174
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the M3 in Winchester, 11 August 2014
23 m awayRef 2014440290132
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the B3335 in Winchester, 12 August 1999
25 m awayRef 1999440OC1168
Serious
Car crash on the M3 in Winchester, 25 December 2020
49 m awayRef 2020440495426
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M3 in Winchester, 29 June 2025
50 m awayRef 2025440286921
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2014440246076 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Winchester road accident statistics for 2014.