A334 crash in Winchester on 23 December 2008 at 17:03 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on the A334 in Winchester at 17:03 on Tuesday 23 December 2008. The 38-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf and the 30-year-old male driver of the Ford KA were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2008
- Tuesday, 17:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91653, longitude -1.21144, in the SO32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shedfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440567964
- 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
- 334
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 25 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 October 2013.
Serious
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A334 in Winchester, 31 October 2013
25 m awayRef 2013440412644
Serious
Car crash on the A334 in Winchester, 15 July 1997
54 m awayRef 1997440HB0193
Serious
Honda XL1000V crash on the A334 in Winchester, 1 March 2010
64 m awayRef 2010440083374
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A334 in Winchester, 15 November 2002
64 m awayRef 2002440HB0346
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A334 in Winchester, 23 July 1994
71 m awayRef 1994440HB0191
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A334 in Winchester, 3 January 2021
73 m awayRef 2021440002630
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
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 2008440567964 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.