Unclassified road crash on the Isle of Wight PO33 on 17 August 2016 at 12:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Rover 75 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Wight at 12:30 on Wednesday 17 August 2016. The 48-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra and a 51-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were 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
- 17 Aug 2016
- Wednesday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Rover 75
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72516, longitude -1.23162, in the PO33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wootton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wootton Bridge, Isle of Wight, PO33 4LY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016440308652
- Council area
- Isle of Wight
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- A
- Second road number
- 3054
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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%
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The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 2024.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Rover 75
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2016440308652 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Wight road accident statistics for 2016.