A272 crash in East Hampshire on 29 May 1996 at 08:00 involving a Reliant Robin
A Reliant Robin crashed on the A272 in East Hampshire at 08:00 on Wednesday 29 May 1996. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 May 1996
- Wednesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Reliant Robin
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01159, longitude -0.92302, in the GU31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hampshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996440OL0732
- Council area
- East Hampshire
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 27
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2017.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A272 in East Hampshire, 21 March 2017
6 m awayRef 2017440105058
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 14 July 1985
14 m awayRef 1985440PP0053
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A272 in East Hampshire, 6 April 2025
18 m awayRef 2025440150170
Slight
Foden crash on the A272 in East Hampshire, 8 June 1998
20 m awayRef 1998440OL0813
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 23 January 1983
22 m awayRef 1983440PP0007
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A3 in East Hampshire, 21 November 2013
27 m awayRef 2013440465209
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Reliant Robin
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 848 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Reliant Robin)
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 1996440OL0732 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Hampshire road accident statistics for 1996.