A3090 crash in Test Valley on 17 August 1997 at 16:28 involving a Vauxhall Carlton
A Vauxhall Carlton, a Nissan Patrol and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A3090 in Test Valley at 16:28 on Sunday 17 August 1997. The 19-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Aug 1997
- Sunday, 16:28
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Carlton and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.998, longitude -1.47098, in the SO51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Romsey.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997440LR0214
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3090
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 1993.
Slight
Car crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 24 July 1993
20 m awayRef 1993440LR0174
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A3090 in Test Valley, 3 December 2013
21 m awayRef 2013440454609
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 4 July 1992
22 m awayRef 1992440LR0188
Serious
Bedford crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 4 December 1992
71 m awayRef 1992440LR0344
Fatal
Peugeot 405 crash on the A3090 in Test Valley, 12 April 2003
72 m awayRef 2003440LR0122
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3090 in Test Valley, 24 January 2000
73 m awayRef 2000440LR0020
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Patrol
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Other tow
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Jackknifed
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,246 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 1997440LR0214 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Test Valley road accident statistics for 1997.