Unclassified road crash in Winchester PO17 on 8 August 2012 at 20:58 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on an unclassified road in Winchester at 20:58 on Wednesday 8 August 2012. The 17-year-old female driver and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Aug 2012
- Wednesday, 20:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90812, longitude -1.18851, in the PO17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Southwick and Wickham, Winchester, PO17 5JW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012440308135
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Mud
- Carriageway hazards
- Mud
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 2006.
Slight
MAN crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 22 September 2006
4 m awayRef 2006440377254
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 28 April 1980
49 m awayRef 1980440HB0079
Serious
Volvo 360 crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 11 September 1991
67 m awayRef 1991440HB0257
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 15 January 1984
103 m awayRef 1984440HB0011
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 25 February 1979
117 m awayRef 1979440CB0038
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 24 March 2011
131 m awayRef 2011440123428
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2012440308135 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Winchester road accident statistics for 2012.