A325 crash in Rushmoor on 25 April 2023 at 23:27 involving a BMW X3
A BMW X3 and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A325 in Rushmoor at 23:27 on Tuesday 25 April 2023. A 23-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf and a 42-year-old male passenger in the BMW X3 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 2023
- Tuesday, 23:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW X3 and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30155, longitude -0.75245, in the GU14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Farnborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cherrywood, Rushmoor, GU14 8JU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023440162533
- Council area
- Rushmoor
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 325
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 4 metres away, was a fatal crash on 16 January 1991.
Fatal
Austin Maestro crash on the A325 in Rushmoor, 16 January 1991
4 m awayRef 1991440FR0021
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A325 in Rushmoor, 23 May 2017
5 m awayRef 2017440193071
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A325 in Rushmoor, 3 June 2009
10 m awayRef 2009440238995
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A325 in Hart, 21 November 2001
10 m awayRef 2001440AA1803
Slight
Car crash on the A325 in Rushmoor, 5 April 1983
11 m awayRef 1983440FR0095
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A325 in Rushmoor, 8 October 1990
11 m awayRef 1990440FR0401
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW X3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X3)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2023440162533 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rushmoor road accident statistics for 2023.