A33 crash in Winchester on 22 February 2009 at 23:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A33 in Winchester at 23:30 on Sunday 22 February 2009. The 23-year-old male driver and a 32-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Feb 2009
- Sunday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09652, longitude -1.28936, in the SO21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009440080207
- 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
- 33
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 1992.
Slight
Talbot Solara crash on the A33 in Winchester, 25 October 1992
10 m awayRef 1992440OC0762
Fatal
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 12 November 2000
10 m awayRef 2000440OC1675
Slight
Car crash on the A33 in Winchester, 20 March 1985
30 m awayRef 1985440OC0104
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A33 in Winchester, 16 August 1992
42 m awayRef 1992440OC0584
Serious
Car crash on the A33 in Winchester, 24 June 1984
50 m awayRef 1984440OC0215
Slight
Scooter crash on the A33 in Winchester, 30 April 1983
50 m awayRef 1983440OC0159
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2009440080207 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 2009.