A3 crash in Portsmouth on 24 November 1983 at 17:00 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the A3 in Portsmouth at 17:00 on Thursday 24 November 1983. The 27-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 1983
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81208, longitude -1.08545, 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
- 1983440RF0763
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2020.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 19 December 2020
5 m awayRef 2020440488493
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 16 September 1987
10 m awayRef 1987440RF0516
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 20 April 2001
10 m awayRef 2001440KK0883
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 1 June 2000
10 m awayRef 2000440RF0394
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 8 January 1989
10 m awayRef 1989440RF0021
Serious
Van crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 27 May 2003
10 m awayRef 2003440KK1040
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1983440RF0763 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.