Unclassified road crash in Test Valley SO16 on 3 December 2023 at 17:37 involving a Ford Transit van
A bicycle and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley at 17:37 on Sunday 3 December 2023. The 57-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2023
- Sunday, 17:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95783, longitude -1.40016, in the SO16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chilworth, Nursling & Rownhams, Test Valley, SO16 7LH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023440494112
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, lighting unknown
- 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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 1990.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A33 in Eastleigh, 1 February 1990
32 m awayRef 1990440LA0069
Serious
Scooter crash on the A33 in Test Valley, 8 October 1982
39 m awayRef 1982440DC0243
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A33 in Eastleigh, 17 January 1990
49 m awayRef 1990440LA0035
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A33 in Eastleigh, 14 January 1998
66 m awayRef 1998440LA0043
Serious
New Holland crash on the M3 in Test Valley, 10 January 2013
69 m awayRef 2013440013173
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the M3 in Test Valley, 23 November 1996
76 m awayRef 1996440LA0792
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Cycleway or shared use footway (not part of main carriageway)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Cycleway or shared use footway (not part of main carriageway)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 57, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2023440494112 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.