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Serious A33 crash in Winchester on 16 June 1979 at 13:45 involving a car

A car crashed on the A33 in Winchester at 13:45 on Saturday 16 June 1979. A 68-year-old female passenger 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
16 Jun 1979
Saturday, 13:45
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01177, longitude -1.34852, in the SO21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Otterbourne.

Map of where the crash happened in Winchester

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979440CT0080
Council area
Winchester
Police force
Hampshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
33
Road type
Dual 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2001.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    25 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

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 1979440CT0080 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 1979.