B3335 crash in Winchester on 20 November 1997 at 00:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B3335 in Winchester at 00:30 on Thursday 20 November 1997. The 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 1997
- Thursday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03136, longitude -1.31531, in the SO21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997440OC1750
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3335
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 83 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 2019.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3335 in Winchester, 12 August 2019
83 m awayRef 2019440287485
Slight
Car crash on the A333 in Winchester, 19 December 1980
100 m awayRef 1980440OT0186
Serious
Car crash on the A333 in Winchester, 30 December 1979
100 m awayRef 1979440CT0194
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B3335 in Winchester, 24 March 1991
102 m awayRef 1991440OC0233
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 6 December 1996
110 m awayRef 1996440OC1838
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3047 in Winchester, 12 December 2001
132 m awayRef 2001440OC1884
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 1997440OC1750 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.