Serious A343 crash in Test Valley on 15 May 2019 at 19:10 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A343 in Test Valley at 19:10 on Wednesday 15 May 2019. The 50-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 May 2019
- Wednesday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23201, longitude -1.47757, in the SP10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Andover. It is one of the crashes that make up the Andover Romans, Test Valley, SP10 5LB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019440167533
- 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
- 343
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 95%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 5%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 29 November 2014.
Serious
Car crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 29 November 2014
1 m awayRef 2014440428218
Slight
Car crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 16 June 1988
2 m awayRef 1988440NA0158
Slight
Car crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 28 October 1984
2 m awayRef 1984440NA0307
Slight
Car crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 13 May 1984
2 m awayRef 1984440NA0134
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 3 April 2012
2 m awayRef 2012440131711
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 4 March 2016
3 m awayRef 2016440090555
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 50, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- 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 2019440167533 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 2019.