M3 crash in Basingstoke and Deane on 21 January 2015 at 07:01 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane at 07:01 on Wednesday 21 January 2015. The 37-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2015
- Wednesday, 07:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26711, longitude -1.00422, in the RG27 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Basingstoke and Deane
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015440022428
- 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
- Fine, 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, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 2007.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 25 October 2007
30 m awayRef 2007440492437
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 55LF crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 18 September 2004
32 m awayRef 2004440BB1089
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 11 September 2025
38 m awayRef 2025440412503
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 7 November 2018
39 m awayRef 2018440419349
Fatal
Car crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 2 June 1985
46 m awayRef 1985440BS0095
Slight
Car crash on the M3 in Basingstoke and Deane, 25 October 1985
46 m awayRef 1985440BS0181
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2015440022428 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 2015.