A2047 crash in Portsmouth on 29 August 1985 at 13:25 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth at 13:25 on Thursday 29 August 1985. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 29 Aug 1985
- Thursday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81356, longitude -1.08017, 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
- 1985440RF0540
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2047
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 slight injury crash on 31 May 2006.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 31 May 2006
At the same spotRef 2006440203441
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 19 April 2009
At the same spotRef 2009440168621
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 19 November 1991
At the same spotRef 1991440RF0715
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 8 October 1985
At the same spotRef 1985440RF0646
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 19 September 1986
At the same spotRef 1986440RF0585
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 15 July 2012
2 m awayRef 2012440272796
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 1985440RF0540 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.