B3057 crash in Test Valley on 27 August 1997 at 14:08 involving a Ford Transit van
Two Ford Transit vans were involved in a crash on the B3057 in Test Valley at 14:08 on Wednesday 27 August 1997. The 27-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Aug 1997
- Wednesday, 14:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99389, longitude -1.49881, 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
- 1997440LR0225
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3057
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3398 in Test Valley, 23 April 1996
20 m awayRef 1996440LR0101
Slight
Rover Range Rover crash on the A3057 in Test Valley, 28 February 1997
20 m awayRef 1997440LR0051
Slight
Car crash on the B3390 in Test Valley, 26 August 1983
28 m awayRef 1983440LR0263
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B3398 in Test Valley, 23 March 2001
30 m awayRef 2001440LR0106
Slight
Volvo XC90 crash on the B3398 in Test Valley, 2 November 2018
41 m awayRef 2018440411701
Slight
Car crash on the B3398 in Test Valley, 20 November 2025
45 m awayRef 2025440524347
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 1997440LR0225 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.