Serious unclassified road crash in Portsmouth PO3 on 31 August 2010 at 06:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus, a motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth at 06:45 on Tuesday 31 August 2010. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Aug 2010
- Tuesday, 06:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Focus and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80866, longitude -1.06054, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Portsmouth
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010440369348
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
- 92%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 8%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 1999.
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At the same spotRef 1999440RF0527
Slight
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Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 18 October 2014
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Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 21 May 2018
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 7 December 1983
10 m awayRef 1983440RF0767
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 23 March 1985
10 m awayRef 1985440RF0182
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 2010440369348 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 2010.