Serious A303 crash in Test Valley on 22 September 2018 at 17:59 involving a car
A car crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 17:59 on Saturday 22 September 2018. A 13-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Sep 2018
- Saturday, 17:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19443, longitude -1.48216, in the SP10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Andover Winton, Test Valley, SP10 2HR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440358550
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 90%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 10%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 2006.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 17 August 2006
22 m awayRef 2006440322220
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 5 February 1997
23 m awayRef 1997440NA0088
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 26 December 2017
24 m awayRef 2017440499104
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 5 January 2025
45 m awayRef 2025440005302
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 21 February 1998
49 m awayRef 1998440NA0176
Slight
BMW M4 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 25 August 2020
57 m awayRef 2020440326115
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2018440358550 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.