A970 crash in Winchester on 18 October 1991 at 18:20 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A970 in Winchester at 18:20 on Friday 18 October 1991. The 26-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 1991
- Friday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1672, longitude -1.32631, in the SO21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991910020260
- Council area
- Winchester
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A970 in Winchester, 24 July 1989
At the same spotRef 1989910020187
Serious
Car crash on the A970 in Winchester, 29 October 1979
At the same spotRef 1979910020209
Slight
Car crash on the A970 in Winchester, 9 December 1980
100 m awayRef 1980910020296
Slight
Minibus crash on the A970 in Winchester, 19 March 1987
100 m awayRef 1987910020075
Slight
Van crash on the A970 in Winchester, 31 December 1983
100 m awayRef 1983910020212
Serious
Car crash on the A970 in Winchester, 1 April 1984
100 m awayRef 1984910020052
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1991910020260 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Winchester road accident statistics for 1991.