M3 crash in Winchester on 11 October 2016 at 17:00 involving a Caetano Levante bus
A Caetano Levante bus crashed on the M3 in Winchester at 17:00 on Tuesday 11 October 2016. A 32-year-old male passenger was 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
- 11 Oct 2016
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Caetano Levante
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01517, longitude -1.34249, in the SO21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery, Winchester, SO21 2DX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016440384582
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 2023.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the M3 in Winchester, 13 May 2023
5 m awayRef 2023440187590
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the M3 in Winchester, 11 November 2008
15 m awayRef 2008440501334
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M3 in Winchester, 5 April 2005
15 m awayRef 2005440443530
Serious
Mercedes crash on the M3 in Winchester, 15 October 2002
23 m awayRef 2002440OC1541
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the M3 in Winchester, 19 July 1996
23 m awayRef 1996440OC0984
Serious
Ford KA crash on the M3 in Winchester, 20 April 2010
29 m awayRef 2010440159614
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Caetano Levante
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 32, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Caetano Levante)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2016440384582 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.