A303 crash in Test Valley on 14 December 2013 at 20:32 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 20:32 on Saturday 14 December 2013. An 18-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2013
- Saturday, 20:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17691, longitude -1.35344, in the SO21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013440469591
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 28 December 1992
4 m awayRef 1992440NW0196
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 8 July 1988
20 m awayRef 1988440NG0116
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 12 April 1995
20 m awayRef 1995440NA0217
Serious
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 22 January 1986
30 m awayRef 1986440NG0020
Serious
Rover 100 Series crash on the A303 in Basingstoke and Deane, 4 April 2001
57 m awayRef 2001440BB0429
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 11 October 2010
85 m awayRef 2010440431147
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2013440469591 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 2013.