A288 crash in Portsmouth on 4 August 1987 at 21:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A288 in Portsmouth at 21:00 on Tuesday 4 August 1987. The 16-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
- 4 Aug 1987
- Tuesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78149, longitude -1.073, in the PO4 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987440VS0262
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 1989.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 3 April 1989
At the same spotRef 1989440VS0153
Fatal
Opel Ascona crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 15 March 1990
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Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 11 August 1995
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 24 January 1991
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Slight
Bicycle crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 5 July 2008
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Serious
Bicycle crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 25 March 2022
24 m awayRef 2022440118724
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1987440VS0262 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 1987.