A3090 crash in Test Valley on 25 March 1998 at 10:30 involving an Austin Maestro
A car and an Austin Maestro were involved in a crash on the A3090 in Test Valley at 10:30 on Wednesday 25 March 1998. The 45-year-old female driver of the car and the 20-year-old female driver of the Austin Maestro were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Mar 1998
- Wednesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Austin Maestro
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99131, longitude -1.48431, in the SO51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Romsey.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998440LR0079
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3090
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 October 1994.
Serious
Peugeot 305 crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 15 October 1994
30 m awayRef 1994440LR0253
Slight
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 8 October 1994
32 m awayRef 1994440LR0247
Slight
Opel Manta crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 22 December 1993
36 m awayRef 1993440LR0306
Serious
Nissan crash on the A3090 in Test Valley, 15 September 2024
40 m awayRef 2024440396790
Slight
Car crash on the A3090 in Test Valley, 27 February 1999
45 m awayRef 1999440LR0046
Slight
Car crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 26 November 1979
51 m awayRef 1979440CR0099
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Austin Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Austin Maestro)
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 1998440LR0079 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 1998.