Serious A335 crash in Southampton on 29 December 1983 at 01:50 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A335 in Southampton at 01:50 on Thursday 29 December 1983. There were four casualties: one person was seriously injured and three were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Dec 1983
- Thursday, 01:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 4
- 1 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93667, longitude -1.38045, in the SO17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southampton.
Map of where the crash happened in Southampton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983440WP0695
- Council area
- Southampton
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 335
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 February 1991.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 11 February 1991
At the same spotRef 1991440WP0069
Serious
BMW 2 Series crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 17 September 2025
3 m awayRef 2025440421747
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 10 December 2017
6 m awayRef 2017440479713
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 28 January 2022
8 m awayRef 2022440038537
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A335 in Southampton, 10 May 1987
10 m awayRef 1987440WP0227
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 30 April 1991
10 m awayRef 1991440WP0200
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
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 1983440WP0695 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southampton road accident statistics for 1983.