A303 crash in Test Valley on 21 July 1980 at 18:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 18:30 on Monday 21 July 1980. The 23-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 1980
- Monday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19681, longitude -1.49046, 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
- 1980440BA0179
- 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
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, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2024.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 28 August 2024
34 m awayRef 2024440369854
Serious
Van crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 26 April 1983
60 m awayRef 1983440NA0113
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 10 July 2008
61 m awayRef 2008440303020
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 28 November 1988
61 m awayRef 1988440NA0331
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 5 May 2025
85 m awayRef 2025440194867
Serious
Subaru crash on the A303 in Basingstoke and Deane, 21 July 2005
92 m awayRef 2005440593835
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1980440BA0179 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 1980.