Serious A971 crash in Test Valley on 29 December 1983 at 17:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A971 in Test Valley at 17:30 on Thursday 29 December 1983. A 36-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

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

Severity: Serious
Date: 29 Dec 1983; Thursday, 17:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1983910020003
Council area: Test Valley
Police force: Northern

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 971
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: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
North West
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
38 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 36, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 1983910020003 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.