A33 crash in Basingstoke and Deane on 17 March 2004 at 22:59 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on the A33 in Basingstoke and Deane at 22:59 on Wednesday 17 March 2004. The 26-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf and the 23-year-old female driver of the Renault Megane were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2004
- Wednesday, 22:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31124, longitude -1.02535, in the RG27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sherfield on Loddon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bramley, Basingstoke and Deane, RG27 0EP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004440BB0303
- 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
- 33
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a fatal crash on 25 April 1986.
Fatal
Car crash on the A33 in Basingstoke and Deane, 25 April 1986
32 m awayRef 1986440BS0063
Serious
Car crash on the A33 in Basingstoke and Deane, 20 September 1996
36 m awayRef 1996440BB1067
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A33 in Basingstoke and Deane, 25 April 2000
41 m awayRef 2000440BB0482
Slight
Car crash on the A33 in Basingstoke and Deane, 7 May 1979
50 m awayRef 1979440BS0102
Serious
Car crash on the A33 in Basingstoke and Deane, 14 September 1980
67 m awayRef 1980440BS0186
Fatal
Suzuki GZ 125 crash on the A33 in Basingstoke and Deane, 30 January 2019
75 m awayRef 2019440036295
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
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 2004440BB0303 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 2004.