A272 crash in Winchester on 11 October 1997 at 05:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A272 in Winchester at 05:30 on Saturday 11 October 1997. The 20-year-old female driver 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 Oct 1997
- Saturday, 05:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03627, longitude -1.21026, in the SO24 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997440OC1493
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- 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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 1999.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A272 in Winchester, 27 December 1999
28 m awayRef 1999440OC1983
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Winchester, 5 October 1979
36 m awayRef 1979440CA0082
Serious
Car crash on the A272 in Winchester, 15 April 1979
36 m awayRef 1979440CA0031
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A272 in Winchester, 29 May 2015
39 m awayRef 2015440181352
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the A272 in Winchester, 7 April 2007
40 m awayRef 2007440160225
Slight
Honda NSC crash on the A272 in Winchester, 18 July 2025
40 m awayRef 2025440321009
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, 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 1997440OC1493 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Winchester road accident statistics for 1997.