Unclassified road crash in Winchester SO23 on 31 December 2015 at 11:20 involving a Volkswagen Urban
A Volkswagen Urban and a Mercedes E Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Winchester at 11:20 on Thursday 31 December 2015. The 75-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Urban was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Urban and Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10113, longitude -1.30391, in the SO23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kings Worthy.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015440459960
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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 with 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 1992.
Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 11 June 1992
5 m awayRef 1992440OC0650
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 26 June 1991
5 m awayRef 1991440OC0476
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 5 February 2002
9 m awayRef 2002440OC0201
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 27 February 2008
9 m awayRef 2008440088042
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 14 December 1988
9 m awayRef 1988440OC1031
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 10 September 1985
17 m awayRef 1985440OC0331
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Urban
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Urban)
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 2015440459960 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.