A288 crash in Portsmouth on 25 November 2006 at 19:30 involving a Rover 400 Series
A motorcycle and a Rover 400 Series were involved in a crash on the A288 in Portsmouth at 19:30 on Saturday 25 November 2006. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 2006
- Saturday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Rover 400 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81571, longitude -1.06466, in the PO3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Baffins, Portsmouth, PO3 5BA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006440483692
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 288
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 9 April 2006.
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 9 April 2006
At the same spotRef 2006440132890
Slight
Car crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 18 May 1989
At the same spotRef 1989440RF0340
Slight
Chrysler Voyager crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 3 August 2014
2 m awayRef 2014440279159
Slight
Honda CMX 500 crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 16 January 2023
4 m awayRef 2023440021103
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 1 November 1991
10 m awayRef 1991440RF0662
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 15 May 1993
10 m awayRef 1993440RF0290
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2006440483692 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.