Unclassified road crash in Eastleigh SO18 on 21 November 1996 at 17:05 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh at 17:05 on Thursday 21 November 1996. The 28-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 1996
- Thursday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92708, longitude -1.35355, in the SO18 postcode district and within the built-up area of West End.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996440TW0255
- Council area
- Eastleigh
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 1990.
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Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 21 August 2001
50 m awayRef 2001440ST0459
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Toyota crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh, 3 August 2004
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 1996440TW0255 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.