Serious A303 crash in Test Valley on 19 October 2014 at 18:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 18:45 on Sunday 19 October 2014. The 25-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Oct 2014
- Sunday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19563, longitude -1.47551, in the SP10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014440377564
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 93%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 7%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 June 2020.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 15 June 2020
12 m awayRef 2020440215254
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 27 December 2025
34 m awayRef 2025440580108
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 16 July 1990
36 m awayRef 1990440NA0182
Slight
Hyundai Amica crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 26 April 2001
49 m awayRef 2001440NA0268
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 26 February 2013
50 m awayRef 2013440073040
Serious
Rover 600 Series crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 14 February 1998
55 m awayRef 1998440NA0126
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (over 500cc), 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 2014440377564 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.