A35 crash in Southampton on 24 December 2014 at 15:26 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a car were involved in a crash on the A35 in Southampton at 15:26 on Wednesday 24 December 2014. The 80-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 15:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93734, longitude -1.4129, in the SO16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bassett, Southampton, SO16 7EF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southampton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014440457312
- Council area
- Southampton
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 35
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a fatal crash on 21 April 1990.
Fatal
Car crash on the A35 in Southampton, 21 April 1990
7 m awayRef 1990440WP0177
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A35 in Southampton, 20 January 1989
16 m awayRef 1989440WP0029
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A35 in Southampton, 14 November 2015
17 m awayRef 2015440396459
Slight
Mercedes Gla Class crash on the A35 in Southampton, 2 October 2024
23 m awayRef 2024440428239
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A35 in Southampton, 10 June 2015
23 m awayRef 2015440200316
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A35 in Southampton, 19 June 2014
32 m awayRef 2014440217303
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2014440457312 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southampton road accident statistics for 2014.