Unclassified road crash in Portsmouth PO4 on 9 April 2011 at 17:00 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
Four vehicles, including a Vauxhall Meriva and a Renault Trafic van, were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth at 17:00 on Saturday 9 April 2011. The 55-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Meriva was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 2011
- Saturday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 4
- Vauxhall Meriva and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79111, longitude -1.05876, in the PO4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Milton, Portsmouth, PO4 9DR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011440147779
- 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
- 20 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
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Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 4: Hyundai Accent
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,341 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Meriva)
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 2011440147779 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 2011.