A288 crash in Portsmouth on 12 February 1985 at 16:20 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A288 in Portsmouth at 16:20 on Tuesday 12 February 1985. A 17-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 1985
- Tuesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81443, longitude -1.06454, in the PO3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985440RF0091
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 7 September 2017
8 m awayRef 2017440347596
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 28 April 2024
10 m awayRef 2024440177693
Serious
Toyota Auris crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 22 May 2018
12 m awayRef 2018440190133
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 18 January 2007
14 m awayRef 2007440027850
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 28 September 1994
14 m awayRef 1994440RF0591
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 22 November 2025
17 m awayRef 2025440478224
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1985440RF0091 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 1985.