Fatal A287 crash in Hart on 25 February 2017 at 00:43 involving a Citroen C2
A Citroen C2 crashed on the A287 in Hart at 00:43 on Saturday 25 February 2017. A 31-year-old female passenger was killed and the 22-year-old male driver and a 28-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 25 Feb 2017
- Saturday, 00:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C2
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 killed, 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26302, longitude -0.94082, in the RG29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Hart
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440072555
- Council area
- Hart
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 287
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 2025.
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A287 in Hart, 24 April 2025
15 m awayRef 2025440177058
Slight
Car crash on the A287 in Hart, 24 November 2012
70 m awayRef 2012440458013
Slight
Car crash on the A287 in Hart, 21 December 1989
73 m awayRef 1989440AL0417
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A287 in Hart, 31 December 2008
79 m awayRef 2008440576420
Slight
Car crash on the A287 in Hart, 8 June 2021
120 m awayRef 2021440225758
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A287 in Hart, 5 November 2004
215 m awayRef 2004440AA1508
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
FatalFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017440072555 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hart road accident statistics for 2017.