Serious A34 crash in Test Valley on 6 May 2011 at 21:35 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the A34 in Test Valley at 21:35 on Friday 6 May 2011. The 22-year-old male driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 6 May 2011
- Friday, 21:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17531, longitude -1.33907, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011440187683
- 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
- 34
- 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
- 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
- 90%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 10%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 April 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 20 April 1981
At the same spotRef 1981440BW0071
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A34 in Test Valley, 2 November 2001
At the same spotRef 2001440NA0728
Serious
Lorry crash on the A34 in Test Valley, 6 April 1979
At the same spotRef 1979440BW0071
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 7 August 1980
At the same spotRef 1980440BW0132
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A34 in Test Valley, 27 June 1990
At the same spotRef 1990440NG0101
Slight
Lorry crash on the A34 in Test Valley, 18 December 1982
At the same spotRef 1982440BW0258
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2011440187683 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 2011.