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A27 crash in Test Valley on 25 March 2003 at 08:40 involving a Leyland bus

A Leyland bus crashed on the A27 in Test Valley at 08:40 on Tuesday 25 March 2003. An 11-year-old male passenger 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
25 Mar 2003
Tuesday, 08:40
Vehicles
1
Leyland
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9821, longitude -1.46875, in the SO51 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Romsey Tadburn, Test Valley, SO51 9DL area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2003440LR0108
Council area
Test Valley
Police force
Hampshire
Police attended the scene
No
Highway authority
Hampshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
27
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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 11 January 2003.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Leyland

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    55 years
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 11, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland)

    Bus or coach passenger
    Seated passenger

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 2003440LR0108 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 2003.