A3 crash in East Hampshire on 16 March 2025 at 16:06 involving a Benelli Tornado motorcycle
A Benelli Tornado motorcycle crashed on the A3 in East Hampshire at 16:06 on Sunday 16 March 2025. The 18-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2025
- Sunday, 16:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Benelli Tornado
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07444, longitude -0.87069, in the GU33 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitehill Hogmoor & Greatham, East Hampshire, GU33 6DQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hampshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440115894
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 325
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 2003.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 22 June 2003
6 m awayRef 2003440OL0895
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 14 November 2016
10 m awayRef 2016440430452
Serious
Nissan Note crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 23 September 2017
12 m awayRef 2017440369206
Slight
Mercedes Cla Class crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 28 May 2023
13 m awayRef 2023440211250
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 19 June 2003
15 m awayRef 2003440OL0879
Slight
Renault Trucks Master crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 7 December 2025
16 m awayRef 2025440551849
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Benelli Tornado
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Benelli Tornado)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025440115894 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 2025.