Serious A3 crash in East Hampshire on 13 September 2025 at 07:53 involving a Mercedes S Class
A Mercedes S Class crashed on the A3 in East Hampshire at 07:53 on Saturday 13 September 2025. A 49-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Sep 2025
- Saturday, 07:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes S Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04089, longitude -0.90317, in the GU33 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Liss, East Hampshire, GU33 7RE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hampshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440414853
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 79 metres away, was a fatal crash on 28 July 1988.
Fatal
Car crash on the A325 in East Hampshire, 28 July 1988
79 m awayRef 1988440PP0152
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 8 August 2004
143 m awayRef 2004440OL1106
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in East Hampshire, 1 May 2006
285 m awayRef 2006440162742
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 8 May 1995
323 m awayRef 1995440PT0312
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 22 August 2023
330 m awayRef 2023440339017
Serious
Lorry crash on the A325 in East Hampshire, 4 November 1986
330 m awayRef 1986440PR0120
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes S Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes S Class)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025440414853 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.