Serious M3 crash in Winchester on 10 October 2025 at 14:05 involving a Ford Transit Custom van
A Ford Transit Custom van and a DAF Trucks lorry were involved in a crash on the M3 in Winchester at 14:05 on Friday 10 October 2025. The 57-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Custom van 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
- 10 Oct 2025
- Friday, 14:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Custom and DAF Trucks
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1143, longitude -1.25709, in the SO21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440459440
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 2021.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the M3 in Winchester, 18 June 2021
29 m awayRef 2021440238871
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the M3 in Winchester, 22 October 1990
37 m awayRef 1990440OC0841
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the M3 in Winchester, 27 November 1993
37 m awayRef 1993440OC0800
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the M3 in Winchester, 7 March 2000
37 m awayRef 2000440OC0368
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M3 in Winchester, 2 September 1999
37 m awayRef 1999440OC1361
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the M3 in Winchester, 16 July 2008
44 m awayRef 2008440313594
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- 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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,902 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 57, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Custom)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2025440459440 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 2025.