Serious A27 crash in Test Valley on 24 December 2013 at 07:12 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A27 in Test Valley at 07:12 on Tuesday 24 December 2013. The 57-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 2013
- Tuesday, 07:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96129, longitude -1.4073, in the SO16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chilworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chilworth, Nursling & Rownhams, Test Valley, SO16 7LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013440480839
- 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
- 27
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 94%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 6%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 1995.
Slight
Suzuki Supercarry crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 17 January 1995
40 m awayRef 1995440LR0009
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 10 July 2013
42 m awayRef 2013440253254
Serious
Car crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 13 January 1987
47 m awayRef 1987440LR0012
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 28 November 1990
56 m awayRef 1990440LR0375
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 30 October 1985
56 m awayRef 1985440LR0336
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 7 December 1990
62 m awayRef 1990440LR0385
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 57, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2013440480839 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.