A3(M) crash in Havant on 19 December 2014 at 18:20 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A3(M) in Havant at 18:20 on Friday 19 December 2014. The 19-year-old male driver of the Audi A3 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
- 19 Dec 2014
- Friday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85583, longitude -1.01487, in the PO9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Purbrook, Havant, PO7 8AT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havant
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014440451654
- Council area
- Havant
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A(M)
- 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, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 January 2014.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A3(M) in Havant, 29 January 2014
23 m awayRef 2014440034557
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A3(M) in Havant, 23 May 2018
32 m awayRef 2018440190726
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A3(M) in Havant, 19 January 2018
40 m awayRef 2018440025187
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3(M) in Havant, 1 March 1996
47 m awayRef 1996440JH0102
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3(M) in Havant, 2 February 1984
47 m awayRef 1984440JH0050
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A3(M) in Havant, 15 November 2019
59 m awayRef 2019440411176
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
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 2014440451654 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havant road accident statistics for 2014.