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Serious A34 crash in Test Valley on 30 December 1995 at 18:00 involving a Ford Fiesta

A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A34 in Test Valley at 18:00 on Saturday 30 December 1995. The 65-year-old female driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
30 Dec 1995
Saturday, 18:00
Vehicles
1
Ford Fiesta
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31537, longitude -1.33849, in the RG20 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1995440NA0824
Council area
Test Valley
Police force
Hampshire
Highway authority
Hampshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
34
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Trunk road (National Highways)

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, no street lighting
Weather
Raining with high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 104 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 August 1981.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Straight ahead at junction
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    65 years
    Engine capacity
    1,119 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)

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 1995440NA0824 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.