A343 crash in Test Valley on 18 February 2017 at 14:35 involving a Mitsubishi Lancer
A Mitsubishi Lancer and a Suzuki Alto were involved in a crash on the A343 in Test Valley at 14:35 on Saturday 18 February 2017. A 54-year-old female passenger in the Suzuki Alto was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 2017
- Saturday, 14:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Lancer and Suzuki Alto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22112, longitude -1.47734, in the SP10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Andover. It is one of the crashes that make up the Andover St Mary's, Test Valley, SP10 1DZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440063641
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 343
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 29 February 2016.
Slight
Lexus IS200 crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 29 February 2016
1 m awayRef 2016440085015
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 24 November 1984
3 m awayRef 1984440NA0338
Fatal
Suzuki crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 22 August 1992
7 m awayRef 1992440NA0187
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 25 September 2023
8 m awayRef 2023440390770
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 3 May 2015
8 m awayRef 2015440148412
Serious
Car crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 13 May 1987
9 m awayRef 1987440NA0115
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Lancer
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 1,584 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Alto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Alto)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2017440063641 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Test Valley road accident statistics for 2017.