A303 crash in Test Valley on 17 August 2006 at 13:00 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306, a Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A303 in Test Valley at 13:00 on Thursday 17 August 2006. A 50-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Aug 2006
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 306 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19456, longitude -1.48205, in the SP10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Andover Winton, Test Valley, SP10 2HR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006440322220
- 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
- 303
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 2017.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 26 December 2017
18 m awayRef 2017440499104
Serious
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 22 September 2018
22 m awayRef 2018440358550
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 5 January 2025
37 m awayRef 2025440005302
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 31 March 1980
41 m awayRef 1980440BA0076
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 5 February 1997
45 m awayRef 1997440NA0088
Slight
BMW M4 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 25 August 2020
48 m awayRef 2020440326115
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 2006440322220 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 2006.