A30 crash in Basingstoke and Deane on 25 October 1982 at 23:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane at 23:15 on Monday 25 October 1982. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 1982
- Monday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27274, longitude -0.99506, in the RG27 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982440BS0243
- Council area
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a fatal crash on 13 May 1989.
Fatal
Car crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 13 May 1989
40 m awayRef 1989440BB0407
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 6 August 1985
102 m awayRef 1985440BS0135
Serious
Van crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 27 October 2025
117 m awayRef 2025440486659
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 3 May 2003
173 m awayRef 2003440BB0526
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 30 August 2012
180 m awayRef 2012440340260
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 16 March 1979
200 m awayRef 1979440BS0061
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, 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 1982440BS0243 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Basingstoke and Deane road accident statistics for 1982.