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A970 crash in Test Valley on 30 December 1983 at 21:05 involving a car

A car and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A970 in Test Valley at 21:05 on Friday 30 December 1983. The 20-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
30 Dec 1983
Friday, 21:05
Vehicles
2
Car and taxi
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.16367, longitude -1.33637, in the SO21 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983910020002
Council area
Test Valley
Police force
Northern

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
970
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 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
Snowing, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 1991.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years

  • Vehicle 2: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 20, 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 1983910020002 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 1983.