Serious A303 crash in Test Valley on 20 May 2015 at 12:23 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 12:23 on Wednesday 20 May 2015. The 23-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 May 2015
- Wednesday, 12:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18281, longitude -1.39745, in the SO21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harewood, Test Valley, SP11 7AH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015440169550
- 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
- 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
- 90%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 10%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 16 March 2013
3 m awayRef 2013440098268
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 4 September 2007
25 m awayRef 2007440411830
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 29 July 1989
25 m awayRef 1989440NW0122
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 1 April 2000
30 m awayRef 2000440NA0249
Slight
Morris Marina crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 30 November 1991
34 m awayRef 1991440NG0179
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 19 July 2025
35 m awayRef 2025440323147
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2015440169550 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 2015.