Serious A27 crash in Test Valley on 4 March 1987 at 08:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A27 in Test Valley at 08:55 on Wednesday 4 March 1987. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Mar 1987
- Wednesday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97624, longitude -1.43391, in the SO52 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987440LR0049
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 27
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 January 2017.
Slight
Chevrolet Spark crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 5 January 2017
8 m awayRef 2017440005659
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 30 May 1994
10 m awayRef 1994440LR0137
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 23 March 1987
10 m awayRef 1987440LR0066
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 26 June 1987
10 m awayRef 1987440LR0169
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 28 June 2014
12 m awayRef 2014440229362
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 23 October 1987
14 m awayRef 1987440LR0326
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1987440LR0049 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 1987.