A303 crash in Test Valley on 18 May 2020 at 16:59 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 16:59 on Monday 18 May 2020. A 15-year-old male passenger and a 20-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 2020
- Monday, 16:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19215, longitude -1.66936, in the SP4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bellinger, Test Valley, SP4 0ET area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020440176335
- 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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 July 2004.
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 23 July 2004
9 m awayRef 2004440WA0383
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Wiltshire, 14 June 1987
11 m awayRef 198754AM03087
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 5 January 2011
21 m awayRef 2011440005841
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 12 March 2008
21 m awayRef 2008440109209
Slight
Hyundai Santa Fe crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 11 June 2023
34 m awayRef 2023440230970
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A338 in Test Valley, 18 April 1983
37 m awayRef 1983440NT0041
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
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 and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2020440176335 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.