A31 crash in Winchester on 30 December 1995 at 18:45 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 crashed on the A31 in Winchester at 18:45 on Saturday 30 December 1995. A 52-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 1995
- Saturday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07246, longitude -1.20265, in the SO24 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995440OC0901
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 31
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2008.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A31 in Winchester, 16 December 2008
45 m awayRef 2008440557291
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A31 in Winchester, 7 May 1993
64 m awayRef 1993440OC0239
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A31 in Winchester, 1 January 2024
68 m awayRef 2024440000059
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A31 in Winchester, 26 May 1997
89 m awayRef 1997440OC0714
Slight
Volvo crash on the A31 in Winchester, 30 July 1993
92 m awayRef 1993440OC0452
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on the A31 in Winchester, 18 March 2021
101 m awayRef 2021440100646
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1995440OC0901 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 1995.