M3 crash in Winchester on 13 July 2015 at 06:45 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 crashed on the M3 in Winchester at 06:45 on Monday 13 July 2015. A 28-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 2015
- Monday, 06:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03032, longitude -1.32733, in the SO21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery, Winchester, SO21 2AG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015440239363
- Council area
- Winchester
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2017.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the M3 in Winchester, 27 October 2017
11 m awayRef 2017440418477
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the M3 in Winchester, 10 January 2017
18 m awayRef 2017440011536
Slight
Daewoo Lanos crash on the M3 in Winchester, 25 May 2004
23 m awayRef 2004440OC0698
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the M3 in Winchester, 3 November 2017
24 m awayRef 2017440449596
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M3 in Winchester, 19 August 2004
26 m awayRef 2004440OC1154
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the M3 in Winchester, 12 July 1995
39 m awayRef 1995440OC0413
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- 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 2015440239363 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.