A3 crash in East Hampshire on 24 July 2020 at 15:49 involving an Alfa Romeo Mito
Five vehicles, including an Alfa Romeo Mito and a Volkswagen UP, were involved in a crash on the A3 in East Hampshire at 15:49 on Friday 24 July 2020. The 44-year-old male driver of the Alfa Romeo Mito and a 13-year-old female passenger in the Audi A3 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
- 24 Jul 2020
- Friday, 15:49
- Vehicles
- 5
- Alfa Romeo Mito and 4 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9848, longitude -0.9625, in the GU32 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Buriton & East Meon, East Hampshire, GU31 5SX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hampshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020440277178
- 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
- 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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2014.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 21 April 2014
18 m awayRef 2014440139848
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 7 November 2013
29 m awayRef 2013440421899
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 28 November 2003
43 m awayRef 2003440OL1821
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B2070 in East Hampshire, 2 June 2000
49 m awayRef 2000440OL0790
Serious
Honda NS125R crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 13 May 1998
49 m awayRef 1998440OL0670
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B2070 in East Hampshire, 16 June 2004
62 m awayRef 2004440OL0814
Vehicles involved (5)
Vehicle 1: Alfa Romeo Mito
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen UP
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 5: Skoda Superb
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alfa Romeo Mito)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Audi A3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2020440277178 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 2020.