A31 crash in East Hampshire on 14 July 2021 at 17:55 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Fiat 500 were involved in a crash on the A31 in East Hampshire at 17:55 on Wednesday 14 July 2021. The 55-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2021
- Wednesday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11366, longitude -1.04107, in the GU34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Four Marks. It is one of the crashes that make up the Four Marks & Medstead, East Hampshire, GU34 5HH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hampshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021440278652
- Council area
- East Hampshire
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 31
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 1991.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A31 in East Hampshire, 19 August 1991
34 m awayRef 1991440PT0222
Slight
Car crash on the A31 in East Hampshire, 27 July 1983
38 m awayRef 1983440PT0199
Slight
Car crash on the A31 in East Hampshire, 21 May 1980
39 m awayRef 1980440AT0125
Serious
Audi A4 crash on the A31 in East Hampshire, 1 April 2025
39 m awayRef 2025440141893
Serious
Honda Accord crash on the A31 in East Hampshire, 20 June 1997
48 m awayRef 1997440OL0838
Serious
Triumph TT600 crash on the A31 in East Hampshire, 25 September 2007
52 m awayRef 2007440445621
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 2021440278652 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 2021.