Unclassified road crash in Eastleigh SO50 on 4 July 2017 at 07:40 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf, a lorry and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh at 07:40 on Tuesday 4 July 2017. The 31-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jul 2017
- Tuesday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Golf and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96681, longitude -1.34149, in the SO50 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastleigh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bishopstoke, Eastleigh, SO50 6LD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastleigh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440260274
- Council area
- Eastleigh
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, 49 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh, 9 December 1988
49 m awayRef 1988440LA0791
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh, 7 February 2002
57 m awayRef 2002440LA0130
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh, 13 November 1985
83 m awayRef 1985440LA0457
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh, 23 March 1983
141 m awayRef 1983440LA0102
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh, 14 February 2023
179 m awayRef 2023440062789
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastleigh, 11 August 1981
237 m awayRef 1981440GA0266
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 28 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Vehicle 3: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2017440260274 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Eastleigh road accident statistics for 2017.