A288 crash in Portsmouth on 13 March 2012 at 09:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A288 in Portsmouth at 09:05 on Tuesday 13 March 2012. The 16-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Mar 2012
- Tuesday, 09:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82583, longitude -1.06582, in the PO3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hilsea, Portsmouth, PO2 9QJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Portsmouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012440101239
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 29 October 1988
15 m awayRef 1988440RF0685
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 17 August 2004
16 m awayRef 2004440KK1561
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 20 December 1998
16 m awayRef 1998440RF0858
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 6 November 2024
17 m awayRef 2024440483504
Fatal
Car crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 14 December 1989
21 m awayRef 1989440RF0809
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 29 October 2001
29 m awayRef 2001440KK2355
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 16, 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 2012440101239 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 2012.