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Fatal unclassified road crash in Portsmouth PO4 on 15 March 1990 at 16:05 involving an Opel Ascona

An Opel Ascona hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Portsmouth at 16:05 on Thursday 15 March 1990. A 64-year-old female pedestrian was killed.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Fatal
Date
15 Mar 1990
Thursday, 16:05
Vehicles
1
Opel Ascona
Casualties
1
1 killed

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78158, longitude -1.07286, in the PO4 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Portsmouth

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1990440VS0120
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
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 2008.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Opel Ascona

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years
    Engine capacity
    1,876 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    13 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Fatal

    Female, aged 64, hit by vehicle 1 (Opel Ascona)

    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 1990440VS0120 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 1990.