A31 crash in Winchester on 20 March 2015 at 07:30 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Mazda CX5 were involved in a crash on the A31 in Winchester at 07:30 on Friday 20 March 2015. The 26-year-old male driver of the BMW 1 Series and the 58-year-old male driver of the Mazda CX5 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Mar 2015
- Friday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Mazda CX5
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08142, longitude -1.11217, in the SO24 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015440094540
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 31
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 September 1984.
Serious
Car crash on the A31 in Winchester, 20 September 1984
13 m awayRef 1984440OA0101
Serious
Peugeot 407 crash on the A31 in Winchester, 18 March 2010
19 m awayRef 2010440109840
Slight
Car crash on the A31 in East Hampshire, 22 May 2006
57 m awayRef 2006440191236
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A31 in Winchester, 7 January 1994
57 m awayRef 1994440OC0020
Serious
Car crash on the A31 in Winchester, 9 April 1983
68 m awayRef 1983440OA0048
Slight
Van crash on the A31 in Winchester, 30 November 1993
127 m awayRef 1993440OC0803
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda CX5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,191 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda CX5)
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 2015440094540 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 2015.