Unclassified road crash in Portsmouth PO4 on 14 February 1986 at 13:30 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Portsmouth at 13:30 on Friday 14 February 1986. A 31-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 1986
- Friday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78676, longitude -1.05672, in the PO4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986440VS0064
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 June 2017.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 26 June 2017
4 m awayRef 2017440243911
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 13 May 2018
8 m awayRef 2018440176924
Slight
BMW X3 crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 9 September 2025
9 m awayRef 2025440409774
Serious
Car crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 21 April 1982
10 m awayRef 1982440KS0147
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 21 May 1993
10 m awayRef 1993440VS0214
Slight
Scooter crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 31 July 1987
10 m awayRef 1987440VS0255
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
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 1986440VS0064 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 1986.