A34 crash in Winchester on 26 August 2016 at 11:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A34 in Winchester at 11:40 on Friday 26 August 2016. The 51-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 2016
- Friday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10866, longitude -1.34451, in the SO21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016440320844
- 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
- 34
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 November 2015.
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the A34 in Winchester, 1 November 2015
13 m awayRef 2015440380036
Slight
BMW 2 Series crash on the A34 in Winchester, 8 April 2022
14 m awayRef 2022440138252
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A34 in Winchester, 25 December 2011
15 m awayRef 2011440538864
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A34 in Winchester, 20 May 2011
15 m awayRef 2011440210039
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A34 in Winchester, 2 July 2016
26 m awayRef 2016440245919
Slight
Minibus crash on the A34 in Winchester, 21 April 1989
38 m awayRef 1989440OC0288
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2016440320844 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 2016.