Unclassified road crash in Eastleigh SO53 on 16 August 1996 at 17:15 involving a Mitsubishi Galant
A Mitsubishi Galant hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Eastleigh at 17:15 on Friday 16 August 1996. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 1996
- Friday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi Galant
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9682, longitude -1.39086, in the SO53 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chandler's Ford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996440LA0509
- Council area
- Eastleigh
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 June 2016.
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Slight
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Aprilia crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh, 10 July 2016
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Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh, 18 December 2018
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Slight
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Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh, 1 September 2023
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Galant
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Galant)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1996440LA0509 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Eastleigh road accident statistics for 1996.