A303 crash in Test Valley on 26 April 1979 at 23:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 23:20 on Thursday 26 April 1979. The 56-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 1979
- Thursday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20048, longitude -1.5076, in the SP10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979440BA0094
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 303
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 343
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 12 December 1987
30 m awayRef 1987440NA0290
Serious
Suzuki GSF 1200 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 26 November 2007
40 m awayRef 2007440543736
Slight
Van crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 6 March 1989
41 m awayRef 1989440NA0067
Slight
Lorry crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 25 March 1988
41 m awayRef 1988440NA0083
Slight
Fiat Seicento crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 11 July 2008
51 m awayRef 2008440305684
Serious
Alfa Romeo Giulietta crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 21 July 1995
51 m awayRef 1995440NA0433
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1979440BA0094 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 1979.