A342 crash in Test Valley on 16 April 2025 at 13:22 involving a Mini Countryman
A car and a Mini Countryman were involved in a crash on the A342 in Test Valley at 13:22 on Wednesday 16 April 2025. The 24-year-old male driver of the car and the 32-year-old female driver of the Mini Countryman were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2025
- Wednesday, 13:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mini Countryman
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24881, longitude -1.59663, in the SP11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440165895
- 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
- 342
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2015.
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 14 December 2015
2 m awayRef 2015440436800
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 6 August 2017
4 m awayRef 2017440302779
Serious
Honda CBF 125 crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 26 March 2025
6 m awayRef 2025440132304
Slight
BMW R 1150 RT crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 13 June 2003
7 m awayRef 2003440NA0337
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 16 March 2020
8 m awayRef 2020440099002
Slight
Scania crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 25 October 2018
10 m awayRef 2018440401868
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Vehicle 2: Mini Countryman
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 100 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Countryman)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025440165895 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.