Unclassified road crash in Winchester SO21 on 13 December 1996 at 19:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Winchester at 19:00 on Friday 13 December 1996. A 93-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 1996
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03069, longitude -1.33942, in the SO21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996440OC1871
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 301 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 1979.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A31 in Winchester, 7 May 1979
301 m awayRef 1979440CT0061
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A33 in Winchester, 17 March 1987
335 m awayRef 1987440OC0125
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A34 in Test Valley, 7 April 1998
472 m awayRef 1998440NA0265
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Winchester, 11 December 1979
492 m awayRef 1979440CT0188
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Winchester, 19 December 1980
524 m awayRef 1980440OT0184
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A33 in Winchester, 25 May 1980
524 m awayRef 1980440OT0075
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 93, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 1996440OC1871 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 1996.