Serious M271 crash in Test Valley on 26 November 2019 at 08:30 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series crashed on the M271 in Test Valley at 08:30 on Tuesday 26 November 2019. The 28-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Nov 2019
- Tuesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94384, longitude -1.47522, in the SO16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nursling. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chilworth, Nursling & Rownhams, Test Valley, SO16 0AJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019440424870
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 271
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 89%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 11%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 April 2006.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the M271 in Test Valley, 7 April 2006
8 m awayRef 2006440130571
Slight
Suzuki GSX 750 crash on the M271 in Test Valley, 11 October 2006
15 m awayRef 2006440407886
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the M271 in Test Valley, 10 November 2002
15 m awayRef 2002440SY0824
Serious
Mazda MX-5 crash on the M271 in Test Valley, 2 May 2010
15 m awayRef 2010440177973
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the M271 in Southampton, 30 September 1996
16 m awayRef 1996440YS0613
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the M271 in Test Valley, 24 September 2021
17 m awayRef 2021440384174
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- 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 2019440424870 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Test Valley road accident statistics for 2019.