Serious A27 crash in Test Valley on 1 December 2011 at 18:35 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A27 in Test Valley at 18:35 on Thursday 1 December 2011. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98777, longitude -1.48963, in the SO51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Romsey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Romsey Tadburn, Test Valley, SO51 8AG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011440507463
- 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
- 27
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 27
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 90%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 10%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 December 2013.
Serious
Kawasaki ER650 crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 6 December 2013
8 m awayRef 2013440459306
Slight
Car crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 22 August 1989
28 m awayRef 1989440LR0266
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 1 December 1988
30 m awayRef 1988440LR0360
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3090 in Test Valley, 14 October 2001
32 m awayRef 2001440LR0307
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 6 March 1986
32 m awayRef 1986440LR0071
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A3090 in Test Valley, 22 August 2019
35 m awayRef 2019440316060
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2011440507463 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.