A303 crash in Test Valley on 19 August 2007 at 00:40 involving a Rover 600 Series
A Rover 600 Series crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 00:40 on Sunday 19 August 2007. The 49-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 2007
- Sunday, 00:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 600 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20046, longitude -1.61252, in the SP11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007440385012
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 30 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 April 1993.
Serious
Austin Ambassador crash on a C road in Test Valley, 18 April 1993
30 m awayRef 1993440NT0020
Slight
Skoda Felicia crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 29 August 2000
32 m awayRef 2000440NA0533
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 24 January 1983
40 m awayRef 1983440NT0011
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 6 December 1987
41 m awayRef 1987440NT0135
Fatal
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 14 August 1987
41 m awayRef 1987440NT0090
Serious
John Deere crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 3 February 1990
41 m awayRef 1990440NT0009
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 600 Series)
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 2007440385012 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 2007.