A2030 crash in Portsmouth on 24 December 2014 at 14:00 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A Ford Transit Connect van and a mobility scooter were involved in a crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth at 14:00 on Wednesday 24 December 2014. The 71-year-old male rider of the mobility scooter 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
- 24 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Connect and mobility scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79908, longitude -1.05534, 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 8GU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014440457128
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2030
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 22 January 1989
1 m awayRef 1989440VS0027
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 12 December 1991
1 m awayRef 1991440VS0515
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 12 December 2016
8 m awayRef 2016440467691
Slight
Bristol (BLMC) crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 8 February 1990
10 m awayRef 1990440VS0064
Serious
Car crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 11 April 1986
10 m awayRef 1986440VS0132
Slight
Scooter crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 21 March 1983
11 m awayRef 1983440VS0094
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Mobility scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 71, mobility scooter rider, on vehicle 2 (Mobility scooter)
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 2014440457128 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 2014.