Serious unclassified road crash in Portsmouth PO4 on 19 June 1984 at 17:10 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth at 17:10 on Tuesday 19 June 1984. The 14-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jun 1984
- Tuesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77936, longitude -1.0763, in the PO4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1984440VS0262
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 19 July 2000.
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 19 July 2000
At the same spotRef 2000440KS0570
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 27 October 2002
At the same spotRef 2002440KK2347
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 21 February 1986
At the same spotRef 1986440VS0072
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 5 March 2018
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Serious
Bicycle crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 7 May 2020
9 m awayRef 2020440161172
Slight
Bus crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 4 June 1984
10 m awayRef 1984440VS0233
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 14, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 1984440VS0262 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 1984.