A3(M) crash in East Hampshire on 19 October 2017 at 00:35 involving a car
A car crashed on the A3(M) in East Hampshire at 00:35 on Thursday 19 October 2017. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 2017
- Thursday, 00:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92265, longitude -0.99769, in the PO8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hampshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440405973
- Council area
- East Hampshire
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A(M)
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 1997.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in East Hampshire, 1 April 1997
23 m awayRef 1997440JW0126
Slight
Jaguar XF Series crash on the A3(M) in East Hampshire, 13 October 2021
26 m awayRef 2021440410589
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A3(M) in East Hampshire, 18 June 2014
32 m awayRef 2014440217317
Slight
Bus crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 22 July 1989
41 m awayRef 1989440CW0285
Slight
Hyundai Kona crash on the A3(M) in East Hampshire, 18 June 2025
55 m awayRef 2025440268382
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 10 December 2010
55 m awayRef 2010440518607
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017440405973 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.