A303 crash in Test Valley on 27 November 2010 at 05:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 05:00 on Saturday 27 November 2010. The 19-year-old male driver and a 20-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 2010
- Saturday, 05:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17589, longitude -1.3302, in the SO21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harewood, Test Valley, SO21 3FN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010440501585
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- 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
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
- 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, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 September 1986.
Serious
Car crash on the A970 in Test Valley, 3 September 1986
36 m awayRef 1986910020151
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 16 February 2012
56 m awayRef 2012440065431
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 12 March 2015
72 m awayRef 2015440084439
Serious
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 25 January 1983
85 m awayRef 1983440NW0005
Slight
Lorry crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 9 February 1987
85 m awayRef 1987440NG0013
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 7 September 1996
89 m awayRef 1996440NA0590
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- 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 2010440501585 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 2010.