A303 crash in Test Valley on 27 August 2018 at 12:36 involving a Suzuki DL 650 motorcycle
A Suzuki DL 650 motorcycle crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 12:36 on Monday 27 August 2018. The 42-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Aug 2018
- Monday, 12:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki DL 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19997, longitude -1.44718, in the SP11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Andover St Mary's, Test Valley, SP11 6TA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440324229
- 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
- 303
- Road type
- Slip road
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3093
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, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 1989.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A3093 in Test Valley, 21 December 1989
24 m awayRef 1989440NA0338
Serious
Lorry crash on the A3093 in Test Valley, 16 August 1987
34 m awayRef 1987440NA0176
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 9 November 1996
42 m awayRef 1996440NA0771
Slight
Renault Modus crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 15 June 2016
45 m awayRef 2016440223525
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 24 June 1999
68 m awayRef 1999440NA0431
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 8 November 2018
73 m awayRef 2018440420794
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki DL 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki DL 650)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2018440324229 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.