A3 crash in East Hampshire on 25 February 2017 at 23:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Hyundai i30 were involved in a crash on the A3 in East Hampshire at 23:00 on Saturday 25 February 2017. The 58-year-old male driver of the Hyundai i30 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 2017
- Saturday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Hyundai i30
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90833, longitude -1.0083, in the PO8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Horndean. It is one of the crashes that make up the Horndean Kings & Blendworth, East Hampshire, PO8 9JU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hampshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440073442
- Council area
- East Hampshire
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 2025.
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 24 December 2025
2 m awayRef 2025440577625
Serious
Citroen C1 crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 29 November 2017
2 m awayRef 2017440465138
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 28 June 1989
5 m awayRef 1989440CW0242
Slight
Bus crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 21 August 1989
5 m awayRef 1989440CW0324
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Havant, 2 April 1983
5 m awayRef 1983440CW0078
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 1 February 1991
5 m awayRef 1991440CW0045
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai i30)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017440073442 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Hampshire road accident statistics for 2017.