A342 crash in Test Valley on 11 July 1997 at 22:50 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A342 in Test Valley at 22:50 on Friday 11 July 1997. The 26-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jul 1997
- Friday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24992, longitude -1.59734, in the SP11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997440NA0489
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 342
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 1991.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 1 October 1991
10 m awayRef 1991440NT0089
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 18 November 2002
20 m awayRef 2002440NA0740
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 15 January 1990
22 m awayRef 1990440NT0002
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 15 June 2001
28 m awayRef 2001440NA0383
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 16 April 2018
29 m awayRef 2018440140366
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 3 July 1998
30 m awayRef 1998440NA0477
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 26, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 1997440NA0489 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.