Unclassified road crash in Test Valley SP10 on 5 July 1997 at 12:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley at 12:10 on Saturday 5 July 1997. The 26-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 1997
- Saturday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22113, longitude -1.50022, in the SP10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997440NA0432
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 1996.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 25 November 1996
At the same spotRef 1996440NA0809
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 17 November 2021
23 m awayRef 2021440462297
Slight
Ford Granada crash on a C road in Test Valley, 19 June 1990
45 m awayRef 1990440NA0155
Slight
Leyland National crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 31 December 1997
50 m awayRef 1997440NA0914
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 25 November 2009
50 m awayRef 2009440509906
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 3 August 2003
71 m awayRef 2003440NA0469
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 1997440NA0432 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.