M27 crash in Test Valley on 5 July 2015 at 21:00 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a lorry were involved in a crash on the M27 in Test Valley at 21:00 on Sunday 5 July 2015. The 29-year-old male driver of the Honda Civic was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2015
- Sunday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95722, longitude -1.45002, in the SO16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rownhams. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chilworth, Nursling & Rownhams, Test Valley, SO16 8AN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015440229548
- Council area
- Test Valley
- 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
- Urban
- 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, street lights lit
- 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, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2007.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 26 January 2007
26 m awayRef 2007440039699
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 5 June 2007
30 m awayRef 2007440258423
Serious
Car crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 29 May 1981
35 m awayRef 1981440DC0144
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 22 September 1994
35 m awayRef 1994440LR0237
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 7 July 1997
35 m awayRef 1997440LA0411
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 22 January 1997
35 m awayRef 1997440LA0053
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
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 2015440229548 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Test Valley road accident statistics for 2015.