A303 crash in Test Valley on 11 July 2008 at 16:21 involving a Fiat Seicento
A Fiat Seicento and a Volvo lorry were involved in a crash on the A303 in Test Valley at 16:21 on Friday 11 July 2008. The 19-year-old female driver of the Fiat Seicento was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jul 2008
- Friday, 16:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Seicento and Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20087, longitude -1.50774, in the SP10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Andover Millway, Test Valley, SP10 3PT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440305684
- 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
- Slip road
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 343
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 1988.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 25 March 1988
10 m awayRef 1988440NA0083
Slight
Van crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 6 March 1989
22 m awayRef 1989440NA0067
Slight
Car crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 17 May 1990
41 m awayRef 1990440NA0122
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 22 June 1983
41 m awayRef 1983440NA0164
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 3 November 2020
47 m awayRef 2020440426144
Slight
Volvo XC60 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 25 May 2018
48 m awayRef 2018440194305
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Seicento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,130 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Seicento)
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 2008440305684 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.