Unclassified road crash in Test Valley SO53 on 20 December 2001 at 21:40 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on an unclassified road in Test Valley at 21:40 on Thursday 20 December 2001. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2001
- Thursday, 21:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97478, longitude -1.40659, in the SO53 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001440LA1059
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 2000.
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on a C road in Test Valley, 11 April 2000
40 m awayRef 2000440LA0275
Fatal
Nissan 200 crash on a C road in Test Valley, 31 August 2001
50 m awayRef 2001440LA0669
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 1 November 1992
61 m awayRef 1992440LR0305
Slight
MG Metro crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 24 June 1996
63 m awayRef 1996440LR0156
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on a C road in Test Valley, 12 July 1998
92 m awayRef 1998440LR0176
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 8 November 1996
94 m awayRef 1996440LA0734
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, 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 2001440LA1059 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 2001.