A970 crash in Test Valley on 13 December 1994 at 14:45 involving a Citroen Xantia

A Citroen Xantia crashed on the A970 in Test Valley at 14:45 on Tuesday 13 December 1994. The 56-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark in snow on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 13 Dec 1994; Tuesday, 14:45
Vehicles: 1; Citroen Xantia
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1994910020307
Council area: Test Valley
Police force: Northern

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 970
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 60 mph
Urban or rural: Rural

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, lighting unknown
Weather: Snowing, no high winds
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Citroen Xantia
Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
South
Lane or location
Not on carriageway
Skidding and overturning
Skidded and overturned
Leaving the carriageway
Offside
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
56 years
Engine capacity
1,998 cc
Fuel or propulsion
Petrol
Vehicle age
1 year

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xantia)

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 1994910020307 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 1994.