Serious A34 crash in Winchester on 6 May 2017 at 10:20 involving a Land Rover Discovery
A car and a Land Rover Discovery were involved in a crash on the A34 in Winchester at 10:20 on Saturday 6 May 2017. The 39-year-old female driver of the Land Rover Discovery was seriously injured and a 5-year-old male passenger in the Land Rover Discovery 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
- Serious
- Date
- 6 May 2017
- Saturday, 10:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10937, longitude -1.34452, in the SO21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440168855
- 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
- 90%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 10%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 2018.
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A34 in Winchester, 18 June 2018
32 m awayRef 2018440227191
Slight
Minibus crash on the A34 in Winchester, 21 April 1989
68 m awayRef 1989440OC0288
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the A34 in Winchester, 1 November 2015
72 m awayRef 2015440380036
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A34 in Winchester, 26 August 2016
73 m awayRef 2016440320844
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A34 in Winchester, 20 May 2011
79 m awayRef 2011440210039
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A34 in Winchester, 25 December 2011
79 m awayRef 2011440538864
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Discovery)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Discovery)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2017440168855 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 2017.