Serious A3 crash in Portsmouth on 16 June 1993 at 17:30 involving a Honda C50LA motorcycle
A Honda C50LA motorcycle crashed on the A3 in Portsmouth at 17:30 on Wednesday 16 June 1993. The 69-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jun 1993
- Wednesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda C50LA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84665, longitude -1.06816, in the PO6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993440CC0297
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 2030
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 1986.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda C50LA
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 69, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda C50LA)
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 1993440CC0297 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 1993.