Serious A32 crash in Winchester on 18 December 2016 at 20:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on the A32 in Winchester at 20:00 on Sunday 18 December 2016. The 57-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Dec 2016
- Sunday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00406, longitude -1.11307, in the SO32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016440476649
- 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
- 32
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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
- 90%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 10%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A32 in Winchester, 27 September 1988
14 m awayRef 1988440HB0270
Slight
Car crash on the A32 in Winchester, 19 February 1979
36 m awayRef 1979440CF0022
Slight
Car crash on the A32 in Winchester, 8 October 1986
51 m awayRef 1986440HB0253
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A32 in Winchester, 3 August 1987
61 m awayRef 1987440HB0167
Slight
BMW crash on the A32 in Winchester, 5 July 1990
73 m awayRef 1990440HB0177
Serious
Triumph Thunderbird crash on the A32 in Winchester, 19 August 2011
83 m awayRef 2011440353391
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 57, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2016440476649 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.