A303 crash in Test Valley on 29 June 1998 at 07:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 07:40 on Monday 29 June 1998. The 25-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jun 1998
- Monday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20512, longitude -1.59143, 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
- 1998440NA0467
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 303
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a fatal crash on 30 January 1984.
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 30 January 1984
14 m awayRef 1984440NT0010
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 29 November 2025
25 m awayRef 2025440538674
Serious
Vauxhall Adam crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 16 December 2023
27 m awayRef 2023440512827
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 17 January 2022
27 m awayRef 2022440021824
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 23 September 2011
36 m awayRef 2011440405017
Serious
MG Maestro crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 10 December 1994
40 m awayRef 1994440NT0108
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, 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 1998440NA0467 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.