Serious A3090 crash in Test Valley on 21 May 2002 at 17:50 involving a Rover 200 Series
Six vehicles, including two cars and a Rover 200 Series, were involved in a crash on the A3090 in Test Valley at 17:50 on Tuesday 21 May 2002. The 27-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Vitara was seriously injured and the 49-year-old male driver of vehicle 3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 May 2002
- Tuesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 6
- Rover 200 Series and 5 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00316, longitude -1.4544, in the SO51 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002440LR0189
- 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
- 3090
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2004.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3090 in Test Valley, 16 December 2004
72 m awayRef 2004440WR0390
Fatal
Car crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 23 August 1980
112 m awayRef 1980440DC0209
Slight
Car crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 27 December 1980
120 m awayRef 1980440DC0340
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A3090 in Test Valley, 17 September 2001
172 m awayRef 2001440LR0285
Serious
Car crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 2 June 1979
262 m awayRef 1979440CL0089
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 22 June 1990
283 m awayRef 1990440LR0198
Vehicles involved (6)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Vehicle 4: Leyland DAF Fad 85
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 8,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 5: Suzuki Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 6: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 5 (Suzuki Vitara)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
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 2002440LR0189 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 2002.