M3 crash in Winchester on 17 February 2016 at 18:47 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on the M3 in Winchester at 18:47 on Wednesday 17 February 2016. The 40-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 207 and the 53-year-old female driver of the Nissan Qashqai were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2016
- Wednesday, 18:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 207 and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03478, longitude -1.32715, in the SO21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery, Winchester, SO21 2BD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016440070580
- 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
- Slip road
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3090
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 February 2014.
Serious
BMW F 650 GS crash on the M3 in Winchester, 25 February 2014
9 m awayRef 2014440067778
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on the M3 in Winchester, 21 September 2003
12 m awayRef 2003440OC1371
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A3090 in Winchester, 2 September 2002
12 m awayRef 2002440OC1304
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on the M3 in Winchester, 6 September 2022
12 m awayRef 2022440363027
Serious
Yamaha XVS 650 crash on the A3090 in Winchester, 18 May 2009
24 m awayRef 2009440212951
Slight
BMW X1 crash on the A3090 in Winchester, 9 April 2023
30 m awayRef 2023440139815
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,618 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 207)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 2016440070580 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 2016.