A288 crash in Portsmouth on 29 March 1983 at 23:15 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A288 in Portsmouth at 23:15 on Tuesday 29 March 1983. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Mar 1983
- Tuesday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81398, longitude -1.06469, in the PO2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983440RF0191
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 288
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 15 February 1990.
Serious
Leyland crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 15 February 1990
At the same spotRef 1990440RF0099
Serious
Car crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 21 March 1983
At the same spotRef 1983440RF0172
Slight
Scooter crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 16 January 1988
At the same spotRef 1988440RF0036
Slight
Honda FES125 crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 12 November 2024
1 m awayRef 2024440541252
Serious
Renault Captur crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 1 September 2018
2 m awayRef 2018440330560
Slight
Sym NH crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 24 October 2025
2 m awayRef 2025440481622
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1983440RF0191 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 1983.