M27 crash in Eastleigh on 18 April 2015 at 15:00 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon and a Mazda were involved in a crash on the M27 in Eastleigh at 15:00 on Saturday 18 April 2015. The 49-year-old female driver of the Seat Leon and a 36-year-old female passenger in the Mazda were 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
- 18 Apr 2015
- Saturday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Leon and Mazda
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88886, longitude -1.29489, in the SO31 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sarisbury & Whiteley, Fareham, SO31 7DF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastleigh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015440130084
- Council area
- Eastleigh
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 27
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M27 in Eastleigh, 13 August 2013
2 m awayRef 2013440303900
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the M27 in Eastleigh, 27 February 2006
24 m awayRef 2006440076780
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the M27 in Fareham, 2 October 2025
28 m awayRef 2025440446500
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the M27 in Fareham, 13 November 2023
28 m awayRef 2023440463441
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M27 in Eastleigh, 17 April 2009
33 m awayRef 2009440164444
Fatal
Volkswagen Polo crash on the M27 in Eastleigh, 15 July 2001
34 m awayRef 2001440LA0542
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Gas bi-fuel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2015440130084 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Eastleigh road accident statistics for 2015.