Serious A27 crash in Test Valley on 28 December 1980 at 13:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A27 in Test Valley at 13:10 on Sunday 28 December 1980. The 54-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet road with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Dec 1980
- Sunday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97806, longitude -1.43731, in the SO52 postcode district and within the built-up area of North Baddesley.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980440DC0341
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 27
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 15 June 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 15 June 1982
At the same spotRef 1982440DC0129
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 17 July 1993
At the same spotRef 1993440LR0167
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 23 July 1986
At the same spotRef 1986440LR0246
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Test Valley, 19 August 1988
At the same spotRef 1988440LR0223
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 24 March 1982
At the same spotRef 1982440DC0059
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 7 May 1991
At the same spotRef 1991440LR0121
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 54, 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 1980440DC0341 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.