A343 crash in Test Valley on 21 January 2020 at 07:50 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Sport
A Land Rover Range Rover Sport and a Ford Transit Custom van were involved in a crash on the A343 in Test Valley at 07:50 on Tuesday 21 January 2020. The 42-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Custom van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2020
- Tuesday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Range Rover Sport and Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2174, longitude -1.4757, in the SP10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Andover. It is one of the crashes that make up the Andover St Mary's, Test Valley, SP10 1DZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020440024735
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto signal part defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 2013.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 13 April 2013
1 m awayRef 2013440132378
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 4 February 2020
3 m awayRef 2020440043669
Serious
Car crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 4 December 1987
6 m awayRef 1987440NA0283
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 21 March 2018
7 m awayRef 2018440106179
Serious
Ford Capri crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 18 January 1990
9 m awayRef 1990440NA0015
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 10 March 1992
9 m awayRef 1992440NA0059
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover Sport
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit Custom)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2020440024735 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 2020.