A30 crash in Test Valley on 21 March 2018 at 11:09 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A van and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A30 in Test Valley at 11:09 on Wednesday 21 March 2018. The 59-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf and a 77-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2018
- Wednesday, 11:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11233, longitude -1.57776, in the SO20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mid Test, Test Valley, SO20 8DR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440105470
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3084
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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 December 2018.
Serious
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A30 in Test Valley, 5 December 2018
2 m awayRef 2018440454488
Slight
Skoda Yeti crash on the A30 in Test Valley, 18 June 2021
3 m awayRef 2021440239906
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A30 in Test Valley, 29 November 2017
4 m awayRef 2017440464123
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A30 in Test Valley, 26 November 2025
6 m awayRef 2025440533410
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Test Valley, 16 March 1985
8 m awayRef 1985440NG0041
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in Test Valley, 1 June 1983
8 m awayRef 1983440NG0040
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018440105470 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 2018.