A31 crash in Test Valley on 17 December 1987 at 15:55 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A31 in Test Valley at 15:55 on Thursday 17 December 1987. The 44-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 1987
- Thursday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97849, longitude -1.51451, in the SO51 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987440LR0397
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 31
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 5 metres away, was a fatal crash on 19 January 2018.
Fatal
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A3090 in Test Valley, 19 January 2018
5 m awayRef 2018440025164
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A3030 in Test Valley, 27 October 2017
6 m awayRef 2017440418497
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the A3090 in Test Valley, 26 August 2023
6 m awayRef 2023440345637
Serious
MAN crash on the A3090 in Test Valley, 20 November 2025
7 m awayRef 2025440525069
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A3090 in Test Valley, 22 June 2017
9 m awayRef 2017440238300
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A3090 in Eastleigh, 6 May 2005
10 m awayRef 2005440489071
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, 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 1987440LR0397 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.