Serious M27 crash in Test Valley on 2 October 1982 at 12:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the M27 in Test Valley at 12:40 on Saturday 2 October 1982. The 52-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Oct 1982
- Saturday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96076, longitude -1.39622, in the SO16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982440DC0237
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 27
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 1997.
Slight
Car crash on the M27 in Eastleigh, 26 October 1997
At the same spotRef 1997440LA0683
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on a C road in Eastleigh, 19 December 1999
32 m awayRef 1999440LA0955
Slight
Jaguar Sovereign crash on the A27 in Eastleigh, 20 December 1996
51 m awayRef 1996440LA0863
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh, 12 September 1993
51 m awayRef 1993440LA0410
Slight
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the B3043 in Eastleigh, 12 January 2000
58 m awayRef 2000440LA0028
Serious
Peugeot 308 crash on the M3 in Test Valley, 30 April 2025
79 m awayRef 2025440186763
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 52, 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 1982440DC0237 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 1982.