C road crash in Test Valley SO51 on 8 September 1990 at 14:45 involving a Saab 900
A Saab 900 and an Austin Metro were involved in a crash on a C road in Test Valley at 14:45 on Saturday 8 September 1990. A 30-year-old female passenger in the Austin Metro was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 1990
- Saturday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Saab 900 and Austin Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97045, longitude -1.48354, 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
- 1990440LR0282
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 October 1992.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Test Valley, 11 October 1992
10 m awayRef 1992440LR0282
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 12 September 1992
10 m awayRef 1992440LR0242
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Test Valley, 28 November 1983
14 m awayRef 1983440LR0359
Slight
Seat Toledo crash on a C road in Test Valley, 5 October 2002
14 m awayRef 2002440LR0324
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 18 May 2023
19 m awayRef 2023440196768
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 12 September 1998
20 m awayRef 1998440LR0234
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Saab 900
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Austin Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Austin Metro)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1990440LR0282 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 1990.