Unclassified road crash in Test Valley SO51 on 1 December 1993 at 17:50 involving an MG Metro
An MG Metro crashed on an unclassified road in Test Valley at 17:50 on Wednesday 1 December 1993. The 20-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 1993
- Wednesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99946, longitude -1.47567, in the SO51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Romsey.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993440LR0289
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 8 September 1989
22 m awayRef 1989440LR0284
Slight
FSO Cars 125 crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 25 November 1993
89 m awayRef 1993440LR0282
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 27 June 1997
98 m awayRef 1997440LR0161
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 25 December 2019
115 m awayRef 2019440461896
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Test Valley, 30 September 1989
194 m awayRef 1989440LR0303
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Test Valley, 19 August 1982
194 m awayRef 1982440DC0183
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG Metro)
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 1993440LR0289 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 1993.