A323 crash in Hart on 7 August 1996 at 00:50 involving a Subaru Impreza
A Subaru Impreza and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A323 in Hart at 00:50 on Wednesday 7 August 1996. The 51-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort and a 50-year-old male passenger in the Ford Escort were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 1996
- Wednesday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Subaru Impreza and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27846, longitude -0.84554, in the GU51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fleet.
Map of where the crash happened in Hart
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996440AA0468
- Council area
- Hart
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 323
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 1998.
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A3013 in Hart, 28 March 1998
At the same spotRef 1998440AA0393
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A323 in Hart, 8 September 1985
10 m awayRef 1985440AL0256
Serious
Car crash on the A323 in Hart, 28 January 1988
10 m awayRef 1988440AL0041
Slight
Car crash on the A323 in Hart, 25 October 1983
10 m awayRef 1983440AL0330
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A323 in Hart, 13 October 1992
10 m awayRef 1992440AA0608
Slight
Car crash on the A323 in Hart, 26 February 1984
10 m awayRef 1984440AL0079
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Impreza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- 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 1996440AA0468 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hart road accident statistics for 1996.