A3 crash in East Hampshire on 2 April 2017 at 14:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A3 in East Hampshire at 14:30 on Sunday 2 April 2017. The 31-year-old female driver and a 45-year-old female passenger were 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
- 2 Apr 2017
- Sunday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96103, longitude -0.97942, in the PO8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clanfield, East Hampshire, PO8 0QE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hampshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440122709
- 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
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 2023.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 31 May 2023
3 m awayRef 2023440215799
Slight
Peugeot 3008 crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 10 July 2016
7 m awayRef 2016440256527
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 29 March 2017
18 m awayRef 2017440117613
Slight
Mini One crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 13 April 2024
29 m awayRef 2024440154560
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on an unclassified road in East Hampshire, 4 August 2025
38 m awayRef 2025440350509
Fatal
Audi A6 crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 24 January 2006
43 m awayRef 2006440032189
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2017440122709 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.