A3 crash in Portsmouth on 27 September 2013 at 09:01 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A3 in Portsmouth at 09:01 on Friday 27 September 2013. The 36-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2013
- Friday, 09:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84713, longitude -1.07059, in the PO6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3FZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Portsmouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013440366419
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 January 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 20 January 1999
3 m awayRef 1999440RC0023
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 13 November 2018
5 m awayRef 2018440441367
Slight
Volkswagen Vento crash on the A27 in Portsmouth, 28 August 2005
8 m awayRef 2005440646404
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 12 June 2008
8 m awayRef 2008440257774
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 26 June 2008
11 m awayRef 2008440281175
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A27 in Portsmouth, 8 June 2007
11 m awayRef 2007440263881
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
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 2013440366419 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 2013.