Serious A33 crash in Southampton on 25 September 2008 at 12:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A33 in Southampton at 12:00 on Thursday 25 September 2008. The 28-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Sep 2008
- Thursday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91046, longitude -1.40172, in the SO14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bargate, Southampton, SO14 7DW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southampton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008440428844
- Council area
- Southampton
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 33
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3024
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
- 89%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 11%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 2006.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A33 in Southampton, 24 September 2006
At the same spotRef 2006440381406
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A33 in Southampton, 25 September 2006
At the same spotRef 2006440382618
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 15 October 1985
At the same spotRef 1985440SC0288
Slight
Car crash on the A33 in Southampton, 30 September 1987
At the same spotRef 1987440WP0449
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A33 in Southampton, 2 December 2013
2 m awayRef 2013440454001
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A33 in Southampton, 5 January 2013
3 m awayRef 2013440006681
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (over 500cc), 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 2008440428844 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southampton road accident statistics for 2008.