A303 crash in Winchester on 21 December 2013 at 18:48 involving a Vauxhall Astra
Four vehicles, including a Vauxhall Astra and a Volkswagen Golf, were involved in a crash on the A303 in Winchester at 18:48 on Saturday 21 December 2013. A 50-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2013
- Saturday, 18:48
- Vehicles
- 4
- Vauxhall Astra and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17687, longitude -1.32301, in the SO21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013440478359
- Council area
- Winchester
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 2010.
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Winchester, 14 August 2010
3 m awayRef 2010440344658
Serious
Mercedes AMG Class crash on the A303 in Winchester, 15 December 2022
15 m awayRef 2022440504924
Serious
Car crash on the A303 in Winchester, 25 September 1980
27 m awayRef 1980440OS0175
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A34 in Basingstoke and Deane, 29 March 1987
34 m awayRef 1987440NW0050
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A303 in Winchester, 11 January 2016
43 m awayRef 2016440014713
Fatal
Volvo XC40 crash on the A303 in Winchester, 6 September 2024
46 m awayRef 2024440382743
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 2013440478359 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 2013.