Serious A32 crash in East Hampshire on 7 December 2017 at 17:30 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series, a Mercedes C Class and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on the A32 in East Hampshire at 17:30 on Thursday 7 December 2017. A 58-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Mercedes C Class was seriously injured and the 49-year-old male driver of the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Dec 2017
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- BMW 3 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06844, longitude -1.0195, in the GU34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hampshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440475910
- 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
- 32
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 94%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 6%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 8 March 2013.
Slight
BMW F 800 crash on the A32 in East Hampshire, 8 March 2013
1 m awayRef 2013440086817
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A32 in East Hampshire, 27 August 2020
2 m awayRef 2020440329431
Serious
Scooter crash on the A32 in East Hampshire, 15 August 1988
4 m awayRef 1988440PT0212
Slight
Peugeot Vivacity crash on the A32 in East Hampshire, 5 October 2011
4 m awayRef 2011440422547
Slight
Volvo 760 crash on the A32 in East Hampshire, 12 March 1992
4 m awayRef 1992440PT0073
Serious
Car crash on the A32 in East Hampshire, 14 May 1987
4 m awayRef 1987440PT0141
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes C Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 58, hit by vehicle 2 (Mercedes C Class)
- 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 2017440475910 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.