A288 crash in Portsmouth on 4 September 2012 at 15:25 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A288 in Portsmouth at 15:25 on Tuesday 4 September 2012. The 34-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf and an 8-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 2012
- Tuesday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80154, longitude -1.06318, in the PO3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Milton, Portsmouth, PO4 8GU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Portsmouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012440347049
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 March 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 26 March 1989
6 m awayRef 1989440VS0144
Slight
Bus crash in Portsmouth, 10 July 1986
6 m awayRef 1986440VS0269
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 5 December 1996
7 m awayRef 1996440RF0746
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 15 July 2009
7 m awayRef 2009440307448
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 28 November 1998
7 m awayRef 1998440KS0904
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 1 October 2025
8 m awayRef 2025440445599
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2012440347049 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.