A3 crash in Portsmouth on 6 March 1989 at 00:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A3 in Portsmouth at 00:10 on Monday 6 March 1989. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Mar 1989
- Monday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81127, longitude -1.08561, 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
- 1989440RF0161
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 October 2019.
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 29 October 2019
10 m awayRef 2019440388505
Slight
Volvo crash on the M275 in Portsmouth, 19 March 2007
14 m awayRef 2007440126239
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 14 December 1982
20 m awayRef 1982440KF0743
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 30 April 1981
20 m awayRef 1981440KF0241
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 24 November 1992
36 m awayRef 1992440RF0646
Serious
Car crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 12 April 1988
36 m awayRef 1988440RF0245
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1989440RF0161 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 1989.