Unclassified road crash on the Isle of Wight PO38 on 30 January 2008 at 23:22 involving a Ford Puma
A Ford Puma and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Wight at 23:22 on Wednesday 30 January 2008. The 27-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 2008
- Wednesday, 23:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Puma and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.60728, longitude -1.27004, in the PO38 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440052392
- Council area
- Isle of Wight
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine with 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 July 1995.
Slight
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14 m awayRef 1995440ZD0507
Serious
Skyjet SJ 125 crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Wight, 17 August 2015
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Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Wight, 2 May 2008
22 m awayRef 2008440189860
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Wight, 23 August 2018
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Wight, 20 January 1984
54 m awayRef 1984440ZA0005
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Wight, 26 September 1979
54 m awayRef 1979440LT0042
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Puma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,679 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2008440052392 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Wight road accident statistics for 2008.