Serious M27 crash in Test Valley on 19 August 2025 at 14:54 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Fiat 500 were involved in a crash on the M27 in Test Valley at 14:54 on Tuesday 19 August 2025. The 61-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Aug 2025
- Tuesday, 14:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94931, longitude -1.46718, in the SO16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rownhams. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chilworth, Nursling & Rownhams, Test Valley, SO16 0AJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440375195
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 27
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 89%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 11%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 2004.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 20 May 2004
10 m awayRef 2004440LA0389
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 3 February 2003
10 m awayRef 2003440LA0087
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the M27 in Eastleigh, 13 March 2005
13 m awayRef 2005445WE0176
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 12 September 2009
16 m awayRef 2009440399174
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 3 May 2004
18 m awayRef 2004440LA0335
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the M27 in Test Valley, 15 September 2021
20 m awayRef 2021440371595
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2025440375195 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Test Valley road accident statistics for 2025.