Serious A339 crash in Basingstoke and Deane on 10 March 1979 at 04:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the A339 in Basingstoke and Deane at 04:45 on Saturday 10 March 1979. The 58-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Mar 1979
- Saturday, 04:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30029, longitude -1.18523, in the RG26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Basingstoke and Deane
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979440BL0046
- Council area
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 339
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 April 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A339 in Basingstoke and Deane, 7 April 2004
At the same spotRef 2004440BB0437
Serious
Car crash on the A339 in Basingstoke and Deane, 14 September 1986
At the same spotRef 1986440BL0109
Slight
Renault Trucks crash on the A339 in Basingstoke and Deane, 16 December 2018
2 m awayRef 2018440467551
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A339 in Basingstoke and Deane, 18 December 2018
8 m awayRef 2018440469313
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A339 in Basingstoke and Deane, 19 February 1996
10 m awayRef 1996440BB0206
Slight
Suzuki SV 650 crash on the A339 in Basingstoke and Deane, 17 September 2009
14 m awayRef 2009440405745
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 58, 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 1979440BL0046 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Basingstoke and Deane road accident statistics for 1979.