M27 crash in Portsmouth on 10 March 2020 at 12:48 involving a BMW M1
A BMW M1 crashed on the M27 in Portsmouth at 12:48 on Tuesday 10 March 2020. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2020
- Tuesday, 12:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW M1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84169, longitude -1.09223, in the PO6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 4SH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Portsmouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020440090698
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 27
- Road type
- Slip road
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2016.
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the M27 in Portsmouth, 7 June 2016
3 m awayRef 2016440212488
Serious
Smart Roadster crash on the M27 in Portsmouth, 1 December 2016
5 m awayRef 2016440453006
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the M27 in Portsmouth, 6 July 2011
16 m awayRef 2011440281415
Slight
Suzuki crash on the M27 in Portsmouth, 30 May 2003
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Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the M27 in Portsmouth, 6 March 2012
21 m awayRef 2012440091390
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the M27 in Portsmouth, 4 September 2024
23 m awayRef 2024440379050
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW M1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW M1)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2020440090698 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Portsmouth road accident statistics for 2020.