Serious A27 crash in Test Valley on 14 August 2014 at 12:50 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A27 in Test Valley at 12:50 on Thursday 14 August 2014. The 39-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Aug 2014
- Thursday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9576, longitude -1.40453, 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
- 2014440293782
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 91%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 9%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 1985.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 5 June 1985
At the same spotRef 1985440LR0157
Slight
Car crash on the A358 in Test Valley, 13 December 1983
At the same spotRef 1983440LR0385
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 19 June 2013
8 m awayRef 2013440223795
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 18 September 1986
10 m awayRef 1986440LR0306
Slight
Porsche 924 crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 10 February 1992
10 m awayRef 1992440LR0041
Slight
Porsche 944 crash on the A27 in Test Valley, 16 November 1992
10 m awayRef 1992440LR0324
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 39, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2014440293782 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.