A303 crash in Test Valley on 14 December 2010 at 18:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 18:00 on Tuesday 14 December 2010. The 22-year-old female driver was 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
- 14 Dec 2010
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1922, longitude -1.42011, in the SP11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010440524819
- 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, 76 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 1990.
Slight
Alfa Romeo Giulietta crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 9 November 1990
76 m awayRef 1990440NW0151
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 5 April 2008
76 m awayRef 2008440145221
Serious
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 27 May 1989
81 m awayRef 1989440NG0085
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 27 February 1984
81 m awayRef 1984440NW0035
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 3 November 2020
115 m awayRef 2020440426133
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 7 June 1998
132 m awayRef 1998440NA0419
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2010440524819 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.