Serious A2047 crash in Portsmouth on 11 December 1981 at 00:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth at 00:30 on Friday 11 December 1981. The 71-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Dec 1981
- Friday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80761, longitude -1.07745, in the PO1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981440KF0691
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2047
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 3 December 1980.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 3 December 1980
At the same spotRef 1980440KF0723
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 5 February 1994
At the same spotRef 1994440RF0085
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 30 May 1980
At the same spotRef 1980440KF0315
Serious
Car crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 20 March 1979
At the same spotRef 1979440KF0133
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 2 October 1979
At the same spotRef 1979440KF0567
Serious
Car crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 31 July 1981
At the same spotRef 1981440KF0404
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 71, 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 1981440KF0691 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.