Fatal A3090 crash in Winchester on 5 April 2018 at 05:21 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the A3090 in Winchester at 05:21 on Thursday 5 April 2018. The 26-year-old male driver was killed.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 5 Apr 2018
- Thursday, 05:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01327, longitude -1.40143, in the SO21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery, Winchester, SO21 2LB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440124313
- 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
- 3090
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A3090 in Winchester, 15 January 2016
24 m awayRef 2016440022418
Fatal
Toyota Celica crash on the A3090 in Winchester, 14 April 2024
58 m awayRef 2024440156514
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A3090 in Winchester, 15 December 2020
99 m awayRef 2020440482423
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3090 in Winchester, 3 August 2024
155 m awayRef 2024440330131
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 29 March 1992
161 m awayRef 1992440LR0093
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A3090 in Winchester, 17 November 2022
165 m awayRef 2022440466898
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- 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 2018440124313 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 2018.