Serious unclassified road crash in Winchester PO17 on 21 September 2016 at 21:30 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on an unclassified road in Winchester at 21:30 on Wednesday 21 September 2016. The 17-year-old female driver and a 15-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Sep 2016
- Wednesday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91968, longitude -1.15351, in the PO17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central Meon Valley, Winchester, PO17 6AY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016440357620
- 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
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 99%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 1%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 April 1983.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Winchester, 11 April 1983
6 m awayRef 1983440HR0024
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 16 December 2018
13 m awayRef 2018440467810
Slight
Ford Ka+ crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 8 June 2025
17 m awayRef 2025440250534
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 25 February 2011
23 m awayRef 2011440083885
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 22 September 2013
93 m awayRef 2013440360888
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Winchester, 23 February 1981
102 m awayRef 1981440HR0021
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- 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 2016440357620 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.