A272 crash in Winchester on 27 February 2015 at 12:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A272 in Winchester at 12:00 on Friday 27 February 2015. The 78-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 2015
- Friday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.05013, longitude -1.13397, in the SO24 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015440068353
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- 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
- 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, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 2003.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A272 in Winchester, 21 July 2003
31 m awayRef 2003440OC1027
Slight
Lorry crash on the A272 in Winchester, 13 December 1985
77 m awayRef 1985440OA0134
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A272 in Winchester, 15 June 2000
91 m awayRef 2000440OC0872
Slight
Van crash on the A272 in Winchester, 2 June 1986
101 m awayRef 1986440OA0077
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A272 in Winchester, 4 March 1995
101 m awayRef 1995440OC0140
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Winchester, 26 October 1981
101 m awayRef 1981440OA0133
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2015440068353 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Winchester road accident statistics for 2015.