A303 crash in Test Valley on 13 March 2023 at 05:14 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat crashed on the A303 in Test Valley at 05:14 on Monday 13 March 2023. The 22-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
- 13 Mar 2023
- Monday, 05:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19937, longitude -1.43973, 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
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023440100246
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 September 2024.
Slight
MG 4 crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 23 September 2024
7 m awayRef 2024440409156
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 14 April 2014
21 m awayRef 2014440130510
Serious
Lorry crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 8 May 1985
24 m awayRef 1985440NA0115
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 20 December 2018
41 m awayRef 2018440472495
Serious
Triumph Thunderbird crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 29 September 2018
42 m awayRef 2018440367002
Serious
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 25 July 1981
44 m awayRef 1981440BW0125
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- 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 2023440100246 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 2023.