Serious A272 crash in Winchester on 16 December 2017 at 15:45 involving an Audi A1
An Audi A1 crashed on the A272 in Winchester at 15:45 on Saturday 16 December 2017. The 24-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04565, longitude -1.24561, in the SO21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Winchester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440487674
- 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
- 272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 89%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 11%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 1994.
Slight
Honda H100S crash on the A272 in Winchester, 4 June 1994
2 m awayRef 1994440OC0397
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A272 in Winchester, 7 October 2014
21 m awayRef 2014440362383
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A272 in Winchester, 11 April 2021
26 m awayRef 2021440136014
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on the A272 in Winchester, 2 February 2025
31 m awayRef 2025440049708
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A31 in Winchester, 9 March 1991
34 m awayRef 1991440OC0191
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A272 in Winchester, 2 October 2011
34 m awayRef 2011440418531
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A1)
- 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 2017440487674 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.