Serious A303 crash in Test Valley on 21 August 2011 at 10:55 involving a Harley-Davidson FLS motorcycle
Five vehicles, including two Harley-Davidson FLS motorcycles and a motorcycle, were involved in a crash on the A303 in Test Valley at 10:55 on Sunday 21 August 2011. The 54-year-old male rider of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Aug 2011
- Sunday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 5
- Harley-Davidson FLS and 4 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17532, longitude -1.34079, 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
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011440356181
- 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
- Slip road
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 34
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 92%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 8%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 January 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 29 January 2007
10 m awayRef 2007440043766
Slight
MAN crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 6 July 2011
10 m awayRef 2011440281346
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 28 March 1981
20 m awayRef 1981440BW0048
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 4 January 1981
20 m awayRef 1981440BW0004
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 31 March 1993
20 m awayRef 1993440NW0029
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 20 May 2021
35 m awayRef 2021440195459
Vehicles involved (5)
Vehicle 1: Harley-Davidson FLS
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,450 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,585 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 3: Harley-Davidson FLS
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,585 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 5: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Harley-Davidson FLS)
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 2011440356181 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.