Serious A3057 crash in Test Valley on 22 January 1979 at 15:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the A3057 in Test Valley at 15:50 on Monday 22 January 1979. The 64-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jan 1979
- Monday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.16792, longitude -1.46504, in the SP11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979440BT0012
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3057
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 92 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 2013.
Slight
Iveco crash on the A3057 in Test Valley, 4 December 2013
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Serious
Car crash on the A3057 in Test Valley, 6 November 1989
108 m awayRef 1989440NG0190
Slight
Car crash on the A3057 in Test Valley, 14 October 1985
108 m awayRef 1985440NG0172
Serious
Kawasaki EX650 crash on the A3057 in Test Valley, 6 October 2023
224 m awayRef 2023440408908
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A3057 in Basingstoke and Deane, 18 February 2002
270 m awayRef 2002440NA0116
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3057 in Test Valley, 29 July 2023
328 m awayRef 2023440305731
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 64, 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 1979440BT0012 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.