A3(M) crash in Havant on 23 May 2018 at 09:22 involving a Fiat 500
A car and two Fiat 500 cars were involved in a crash on the A3(M) in Havant at 09:22 on Wednesday 23 May 2018. The 30-year-old female driver of the car and an 80-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 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
- 23 May 2018
- Wednesday, 09:22
- Vehicles
- 3
- Fiat 500 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8556, longitude -1.0148, in the PO9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Purbrook, Havant, PO7 8AT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havant
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440190726
- Council area
- Havant
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 January 2018.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A3(M) in Havant, 19 January 2018
9 m awayRef 2018440025187
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A3(M) in Havant, 19 December 2014
32 m awayRef 2014440451654
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A3(M) in Havant, 29 January 2014
37 m awayRef 2014440034557
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3(M) in Havant, 2 February 1984
42 m awayRef 1984440JH0050
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3(M) in Havant, 1 March 1996
42 m awayRef 1996440JH0102
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A3(M) in Havant, 27 February 2011
67 m awayRef 2011440086218
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat 500)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2018440190726 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havant road accident statistics for 2018.