A303 crash in Test Valley on 16 March 2012 at 11:05 involving a Mercedes SLK Class
A Mercedes SLK Class crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 11:05 on Friday 16 March 2012. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2012
- Friday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes SLK Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18577, longitude -1.40519, in the SP11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harewood, Test Valley, SP11 7AH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012440105835
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 September 1991.
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 26 September 1991
28 m awayRef 1991440NW0126
Serious
Mazda 6 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 6 December 2017
43 m awayRef 2017440474547
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 1 December 2016
47 m awayRef 2016440452327
Slight
Lorry crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 10 November 1989
47 m awayRef 1989440NW0177
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 3 May 2016
49 m awayRef 2016440165406
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 30 January 1998
60 m awayRef 1998440NA0081
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes SLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes SLK Class)
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 2012440105835 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 2012.