A31 crash in Winchester on 25 November 2008 at 22:15 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the A31 in Winchester at 22:15 on Tuesday 25 November 2008. The 31-year-old male 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
- 25 Nov 2008
- Tuesday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06956, longitude -1.20856, in the SO24 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440525459
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 31
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 1998.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A31 in Winchester, 24 December 1998
At the same spotRef 1998440OC1985
Serious
Car crash on the A31 in Winchester, 16 February 2006
22 m awayRef 2006440062783
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A31 in Winchester, 31 January 2002
22 m awayRef 2002440OC0180
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A31 in Winchester, 28 November 2001
36 m awayRef 2001440OC1807
Serious
Mercedes 300 crash on the A31 in Winchester, 16 August 1990
71 m awayRef 1990440OC0648
Serious
Car crash on the A31 in Winchester, 10 May 1979
86 m awayRef 1979440CA0039
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 2008440525459 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 2008.