A2047 crash in Portsmouth on 21 October 2006 at 09:50 involving a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle
A car and a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth at 09:50 on Saturday 21 October 2006. The 16-year-old female rider of the Piaggio Vespa motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2006
- Saturday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Piaggio Vespa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80115, longitude -1.07744, in the PO1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Charles Dickens, Portsmouth, PO1 1BS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006440424643
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2047
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 2010.
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Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 29 March 1992
At the same spotRef 1992440RF0163
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 2 November 2003
At the same spotRef 2003440KK2189
Slight
Vauxhall Senator crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 11 July 2003
At the same spotRef 2003440KK1370
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 13 October 1988
At the same spotRef 1988440RF0648
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 3 October 2011
At the same spotRef 2011440419393
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Vespa
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio Vespa)
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 2006440424643 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 2006.