A3 crash in East Hampshire on 9 December 2018 at 05:09 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series crashed on the A3 in East Hampshire at 05:09 on Sunday 9 December 2018. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 05:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94536, longitude -0.98378, in the PO8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clanfield, East Hampshire, PO8 0WR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hampshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440458594
- 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
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
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 2025.
Slight
Ford Ecosport crash on the A3(M) in East Hampshire, 4 September 2025
12 m awayRef 2025440399984
Serious
Car crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 24 May 1981
13 m awayRef 1981440JR0075
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 13 October 1982
13 m awayRef 1982440JR0149
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 8 May 1979
13 m awayRef 1979440JR0081
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 16 November 1981
13 m awayRef 1981440JR0191
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 31 October 1981
13 m awayRef 1981440JR0178
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- 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 2018440458594 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 2018.