{"id":439547,"date":"2026-02-22T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439547\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:50:06","slug":"portsmouth-woman-and-girl-7-die-in-a3-crash-near-hindhead-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439547\/","title":{"rendered":"Portsmouth woman and girl, 7, die in A3 crash near Hindhead Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Portsmouth girl and woman, 43, died on Thursday, February 19 with police today confirming the deaths.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They were travelling southbound on the A3 just after the tunnel at 10am during half term when they crashed in a red Ford Fiesta.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A police spokesperson said: &#8220;It was reported a red Ford Fiesta left the carriageway. The two occupants \u2013 a 43-year-old woman and a seven-year-old girl, both from Portsmouth \u2013 were both sadly pronounced deceased at the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We would like to thank motorists for their patience as the A3 southbound was closed for several hours before it could be reopened.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We would like to speak to any witnesses and in particular anyone with relevant dash cam footage of the incident or the moments leading up to it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;If you have any information, please call 101 quoting reference 44260083669.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0See hampshire.police.uk to give information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portsmouth girl and woman, 43, died on Thursday, February 19 with police today confirming the deaths. They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-439547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}