M271 crash in Test Valley on 9 December 1997 at 08:55 involving a car
A car crashed on the M271 in Test Valley at 08:55 on Tuesday 9 December 1997. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 1997
- Tuesday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94226, longitude -1.47475, in the SO16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nursling.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997440YS0735
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 271
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 2002.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the M271 in Test Valley, 10 May 2002
At the same spotRef 2002440SY0335
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the M271 in Test Valley, 16 September 2010
32 m awayRef 2010440395219
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the M271 in Test Valley, 18 September 2004
36 m awayRef 2004440WR0276
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M271 in Test Valley, 18 April 2025
42 m awayRef 2025440169554
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the M271 in Test Valley, 10 January 2008
42 m awayRef 2008440013465
Slight
Car crash on the M271 in Test Valley, 26 November 2006
45 m awayRef 2006440485140
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1997440YS0735 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.