A342 crash in Test Valley on 7 February 2014 at 02:15 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on the A342 in Test Valley at 02:15 on Friday 7 February 2014. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 2014
- Friday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21195, longitude -1.51881, in the SP10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Andover. It is one of the crashes that make up the Andover Harroway, Test Valley, SP10 3LS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014440044603
- 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
- 342
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, street lights lit
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1996.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 3 December 1996
3 m awayRef 1996440NA0839
Slight
MAN crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 2 April 1998
27 m awayRef 1998440NA0251
Serious
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 18 September 1984
28 m awayRef 1984440NA0261
Slight
Rover Range Rover crash on the B3402 in Test Valley, 17 August 1991
41 m awayRef 1991440NA0203
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 28 October 1996
45 m awayRef 1996440NA0735
Slight
Austin Ambassador crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 5 October 1997
45 m awayRef 1997440NA0655
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
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 2014440044603 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 2014.