A3057 crash in Test Valley on 28 March 2012 at 18:40 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A3057 in Test Valley at 18:40 on Wednesday 28 March 2012. The 36-year-old male driver of the Mercedes lorry was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 2012
- Wednesday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08408, longitude -1.4811, in the SO20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012440123444
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3057
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 September 1990.
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A3057 in Test Valley, 23 September 1990
26 m awayRef 1990440NG0154
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3057 in Test Valley, 7 February 2025
88 m awayRef 2025440058929
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A3057 in Test Valley, 15 December 2003
129 m awayRef 2003440NA0780
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the A3057 in Test Valley, 15 December 2004
173 m awayRef 2004440WA0678
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A3057 in Test Valley, 22 October 1993
237 m awayRef 1993440NG0130
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on the A3057 in Test Valley, 10 April 1992
284 m awayRef 1992440NG0050
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
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 2012440123444 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.