A303 crash in Test Valley on 12 March 2008 at 17:44 involving a car
A car crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 17:44 on Wednesday 12 March 2008. The 32-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 2008
- Wednesday, 17:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19209, longitude -1.66969, in the SP4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bellinger, Test Valley, SP4 0ET area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440109209
- 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
- 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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2023.
Slight
Hyundai Santa Fe crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 11 June 2023
13 m awayRef 2023440230970
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 10 May 1998
20 m awayRef 1998440NA0359
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 18 May 2020
21 m awayRef 2020440176335
Serious
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 25 March 2015
22 m awayRef 2015440100852
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Wiltshire, 14 June 1987
22 m awayRef 198754AM03087
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 23 July 2004
22 m awayRef 2004440WA0383
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2008440109209 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 2008.