M3 crash in Winchester on 5 March 2024 at 16:45 involving a Toyota Aygo
A Toyota Aygo and a BMW X5 were involved in a crash on the M3 in Winchester at 16:45 on Tuesday 5 March 2024. The 44-year-old female driver of the BMW X5 was 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
- 5 Mar 2024
- Tuesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Aygo and BMW X5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03749, longitude -1.31815, in the SO21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery, Winchester, SO21 2BD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024440096555
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 2016.
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the M3 in Winchester, 25 October 2016
1 m awayRef 2016440403500
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Vauxhall Combo crash on the M3 in Winchester, 29 October 2009
4 m awayRef 2009440470712
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the M3 in Winchester, 3 March 2017
5 m awayRef 2017440081209
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Kia Ceed crash on the M3 in Winchester, 26 November 2021
7 m awayRef 2021440477829
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BMW 5 Series crash on the B3335 in Winchester, 22 October 2012
16 m awayRef 2012440434328
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on the M3 in Winchester, 12 July 2024
17 m awayRef 2024440295555
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
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
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW X5)
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 2024440096555 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Winchester road accident statistics for 2024.