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Serious unclassified road crash in Southampton SO16 on 17 August 1983 at 15:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Southampton at 15:30 on Wednesday 17 August 1983. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
17 Aug 1983
Wednesday, 15:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94184, longitude -1.38807, in the SO16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southampton.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983440WP0403
Council area
Southampton
Police force
Hampshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 1983.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 1983440WP0403 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southampton road accident statistics for 1983.