A343 crash in Test Valley on 26 September 2000 at 19:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a car were involved in a crash on the A343 in Test Valley at 19:00 on Tuesday 26 September 2000. The 21-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2000
- Tuesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18018, longitude -1.52799, 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
- 2000440NA0595
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 343
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 July 1983.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 8 July 1983
41 m awayRef 1983440NT0073
Serious
Car crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 30 April 1979
41 m awayRef 1979440BT0047
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 5 September 2011
41 m awayRef 2011440377480
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 23 March 2001
64 m awayRef 2001440NA0207
Serious
Car crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 27 July 1985
67 m awayRef 1985440NG0110
Slight
Car crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 21 August 1988
72 m awayRef 1988440NT0073
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 2000440NA0595 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 2000.