A272 crash in Winchester on 27 December 1999 at 06:05 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A272 in Winchester at 06:05 on Monday 27 December 1999. The 41-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 1999
- Monday, 06:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03639, longitude -1.20998, in the SO24 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999440OC1983
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 April 2007.
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the A272 in Winchester, 7 April 2007
28 m awayRef 2007440160225
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A272 in Winchester, 11 October 1997
28 m awayRef 1997440OC1493
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A272 in Winchester, 29 May 2015
31 m awayRef 2015440181352
Slight
Honda NSC crash on the A272 in Winchester, 18 July 2025
35 m awayRef 2025440321009
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Winchester, 2 August 1985
36 m awayRef 1985440OA0086
Serious
Car crash on the A272 in Winchester, 15 April 1979
41 m awayRef 1979440CA0031
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, 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 1999440OC1983 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 1999.