A397 crash in Portsmouth on 19 July 2015 at 18:00 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A397 in Portsmouth at 18:00 on Sunday 19 July 2015. The 58-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta 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
- 19 Jul 2015
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.839, longitude -1.07064, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015440248403
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 397
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
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 22 April 2024.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A397 in Portsmouth, 22 April 2024
3 m awayRef 2024440169010
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on the A397 in Portsmouth, 22 November 2015
3 m awayRef 2015440406309
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A397 in Portsmouth, 6 July 2025
4 m awayRef 2025440299964
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A397 in Portsmouth, 26 March 2018
5 m awayRef 2018440112081
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A397 in Portsmouth, 5 July 1995
5 m awayRef 1995440CC0326
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A397 in Portsmouth, 24 May 1988
5 m awayRef 1988440CC0205
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2015440248403 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 2015.