A3 crash in Portsmouth on 5 October 1985 at 11:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A3 in Portsmouth at 11:25 on Saturday 5 October 1985. The 21-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 1985
- Saturday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80947, longitude -1.08636, in the PO2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth.
Map of where the crash happened in Portsmouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985440RF0633
- 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
- 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 26 February 1988.
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Taxi crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 26 February 1988
At the same spotRef 1988440RF0144
Slight
Taxi crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 2 January 1986
At the same spotRef 1986440RF0005
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 24 August 1985
At the same spotRef 1985440RF0532
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Serious
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 4 August 1994
10 m awayRef 1994440RF0471
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 23 May 2022
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 1985440RF0633 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.