A2030 crash in Portsmouth on 12 December 1996 at 12:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A2030 in Portsmouth at 12:10 on Thursday 12 December 1996. A 36-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 1996
- Thursday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80406, longitude -1.05056, in the PO3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996440RF0771
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2030
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 13 March 1986.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 13 March 1986
At the same spotRef 1986440RF0167
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 16 April 2000
At the same spotRef 2000440RF0263
Serious
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 6 July 1993
10 m awayRef 1993440RF0399
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 21 November 1994
10 m awayRef 1994440RF0729
Slight
Car crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 12 September 2025
11 m awayRef 2025440414503
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 31 October 2009
22 m awayRef 2009440473759
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 36, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1996440RF0771 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 1996.