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A303 crash in Test Valley on 20 September 1980 at 23:40 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 23:40 on Saturday 20 September 1980. The 20-year-old male rider and a 23-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
20 Sep 1980
Saturday, 23:40
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21863, longitude -1.54893, in the SP11 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980440BT0108
Council area
Test Valley
Police force
Hampshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
303
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
50 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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Flood over 3cm deep

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 39 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 2016.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, 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 1980440BT0108 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.