A2030 crash in Portsmouth on 9 November 1981 at 19:25 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth at 19:25 on Monday 9 November 1981. The 34-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Nov 1981
- Monday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80557, longitude -1.04769, in the PO3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981440KF0621
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2030
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 December 1982.
Serious
Van crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 23 December 1982
At the same spotRef 1982440KF0764
Slight
Car crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 23 November 1984
At the same spotRef 1984440RF0758
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 11 January 1979
At the same spotRef 1979440KF0031
Slight
Car crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 17 March 1980
At the same spotRef 1980440KF0164
Slight
Car crash on the A2040 in Portsmouth, 11 September 1981
At the same spotRef 1981440KF0475
Slight
Car crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 10 September 1982
At the same spotRef 1982440KF0476
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1981440KF0621 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Portsmouth road accident statistics for 1981.