A30 crash in Basingstoke and Deane on 6 December 2004 at 19:13 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry crashed on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane at 19:13 on Monday 6 December 2004. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2004
- Monday, 19:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26265, longitude -1.06579, in the RG21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eastrop & Grove, Basingstoke and Deane, RG21 3QS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004440BB1474
- 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
- 30
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 339
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 2013.
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 26 May 2013
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Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the A339 in Basingstoke and Deane, 30 September 2025
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 18 April 2010
14 m awayRef 2010440156127
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 19 August 2020
19 m awayRef 2020440318667
Slight
Volvo crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 8 January 2008
22 m awayRef 2008440009872
Slight
Van crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 14 May 1998
22 m awayRef 1998440BB0557
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Jackknifed and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,946 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
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 2004440BB1474 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.