A30 crash in Basingstoke and Deane on 9 October 2008 at 16:55 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane at 16:55 on Thursday 9 October 2008. The 17-year-old male driver 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
- 9 Oct 2008
- Thursday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22858, longitude -1.14941, in the RG23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Basingstoke.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440450170
- Council area
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 November 1992.
Serious
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 17 November 1992
63 m awayRef 1992440BB1518
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 9 March 1993
63 m awayRef 1993440BB0264
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 30 November 1992
86 m awayRef 1992440BB1593
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 16 October 2018
124 m awayRef 2018440388933
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 5 November 2025
127 m awayRef 2025440501271
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 15 January 2015
134 m awayRef 2015440015504
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2008440450170 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Basingstoke and Deane road accident statistics for 2008.