A303 crash in Test Valley on 8 December 1995 at 19:20 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Mercedes E Class were involved in a crash on the A303 in Test Valley at 19:20 on Friday 8 December 1995. The 18-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 1995
- Friday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19204, longitude -1.66367, in the SP4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995440NA0757
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 303
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 76 metres away, was a fatal crash on 17 July 1984.
Fatal
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 17 July 1984
76 m awayRef 1984440NT0079
Slight
Car crash on the B3084 in Test Valley, 17 February 2009
76 m awayRef 2009440070868
Serious
MAN crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 16 January 2001
78 m awayRef 2001440NA0046
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 25 August 1980
100 m awayRef 1980440BT0097
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 16 November 2001
100 m awayRef 2001440NA0763
Slight
Maserati Ghibli crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 20 September 2023
104 m awayRef 2023440384932
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 319 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 1995440NA0757 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 1995.