A30 crash in Test Valley on 10 August 2022 at 21:28 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Mitsubishi Eclipse were involved in a crash on the A30 in Test Valley at 21:28 on Wednesday 10 August 2022. The 23-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 52-year-old female driver of the Mitsubishi Eclipse were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2022
- Wednesday, 21:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Mitsubishi Eclipse
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11226, longitude -1.57776, in the SO20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mid Test, Test Valley, SO20 8DR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022440324007
- 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
- 30
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3084
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 2016.
Slight
Mercedes GLC Class crash on the A30 in Test Valley, 13 April 2016
3 m awayRef 2016440140423
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in Test Valley, 1 June 1983
4 m awayRef 1983440NG0040
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in Test Valley, 26 May 1984
4 m awayRef 1984440NG0044
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Test Valley, 16 March 1985
4 m awayRef 1985440NG0041
Slight
Bedford crash on the A30 in Test Valley, 26 June 1991
4 m awayRef 1991440NG0097
Fatal
Van crash on the A30 in Test Valley, 4 February 1987
4 m awayRef 1987440NG0012
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Eclipse
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi Eclipse)
- 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 2022440324007 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 2022.