A30 crash in Basingstoke and Deane on 17 March 2000 at 07:35 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Citroen Xantia were involved in a crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane at 07:35 on Friday 17 March 2000. The 27-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo and the 53-year-old male driver of the Citroen Xantia were 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
- 17 Mar 2000
- Friday, 07:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Citroen Xantia
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26941, longitude -1.02308, in the RG24 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000440BB0322
- Council area
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 2012.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 20 October 2012
19 m awayRef 2012440410013
Slight
Skoda Rapid crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 8 January 2025
19 m awayRef 2025440010748
Serious
Iveco crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 10 May 2003
22 m awayRef 2003440BB0570
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 27 January 2008
41 m awayRef 2008440038092
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 2 November 1988
50 m awayRef 1988440BB0858
Serious
Opel Manta crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 13 February 1995
50 m awayRef 1995440BB0230
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Citroen Xantia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Xantia)
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 2000440BB0322 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Basingstoke and Deane road accident statistics for 2000.