Serious B3420 crash in Winchester on 27 December 2007 at 10:33 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the B3420 in Winchester at 10:33 on Thursday 27 December 2007. The 19-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and the 85-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 10:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08254, longitude -1.32855, in the SO22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Winchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Barnabas, Winchester, SO22 6LQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007440587553
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3420
- 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
- 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
- 99%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 1%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2025.
Slight
Hyundai Tucson crash on the B3420 in Winchester, 1 December 2025
29 m awayRef 2025440542193
Slight
Mercedes 500 crash on the B3420 in Winchester, 4 May 1999
36 m awayRef 1999440OC0650
Slight
Car crash on the B3420 in Winchester, 19 October 1982
71 m awayRef 1982440OC0396
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3420 in Winchester, 2 September 1997
81 m awayRef 1997440OC1272
Slight
Car crash on the B3420 in Winchester, 27 April 1980
114 m awayRef 1980440OS0082
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3420 in Winchester, 8 May 2015
215 m awayRef 2015440159583
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 85 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,272 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 85, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2007440587553 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Winchester road accident statistics for 2007.