A303 crash in Test Valley on 20 December 2018 at 17:50 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 17:50 on Thursday 20 December 2018. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2018
- Thursday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19946, longitude -1.44028, 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
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440472495
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 September 2018.
Serious
Triumph Thunderbird crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 29 September 2018
17 m awayRef 2018440367002
Serious
Minibus crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 5 March 1982
21 m awayRef 1982440BW0037
Serious
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 24 November 1987
21 m awayRef 1987440NG0172
Serious
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 25 July 1981
21 m awayRef 1981440BW0125
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 10 April 1992
21 m awayRef 1992440NW0045
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 14 April 2014
21 m awayRef 2014440130510
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018440472495 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.