A3090 crash in Test Valley on 22 January 2025 at 07:24 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A3090 in Test Valley at 07:24 on Wednesday 22 January 2025. The 47-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 2025
- Wednesday, 07:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98274, longitude -1.50678, in the SO51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Romsey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Romsey Abbey, Test Valley, SO51 6BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440031003
- 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
- 3090
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2009.
Slight
Seat Arosa crash on the A3090 in Test Valley, 5 March 2009
12 m awayRef 2009440097384
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 17 May 1988
17 m awayRef 1988440LR0134
Slight
Ford crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 23 May 1990
18 m awayRef 1990440LR0165
Slight
Car crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 23 June 1984
32 m awayRef 1984440LR0189
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A31 in Test Valley, 12 December 1984
32 m awayRef 1984440LR0399
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A3090 in Test Valley, 12 December 1996
41 m awayRef 1996440LR0314
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025440031003 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 2025.