A343 crash in Test Valley on 6 March 2025 at 14:10 involving a Seat Ateca
A Seat Ateca and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A343 in Test Valley at 14:10 on Thursday 6 March 2025. A 33-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa and the 27-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Mar 2025
- Thursday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ateca and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21782, longitude -1.476, in the SP10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Andover. It is one of the crashes that make up the Andover St Mary's, Test Valley, SP10 1DZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440100222
- 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
- 343
- 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
- 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 2023.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 4 May 2023
19 m awayRef 2023440175765
Slight
Car crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 16 March 1987
25 m awayRef 1987440NA0061
Slight
Vauxhall Astramax crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 10 June 1996
29 m awayRef 1996440NA0390
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 21 November 1994
30 m awayRef 1994440NA0277
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 30 December 2025
33 m awayRef 2025440585033
Slight
Toyota Starlet crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 3 December 1996
35 m awayRef 1996440NA0841
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ateca
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2025440100222 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.