Unclassified road crash in Portsmouth PO6 on 20 September 2015 at 13:00 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth at 13:00 on Sunday 20 September 2015. The 69-year-old male cyclist 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
- 20 Sep 2015
- Sunday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85157, longitude -1.11615, in the PO6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Portchester Castle, Fareham, PO16 8LE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015440326429
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2025.
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Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 4 February 2000
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fareham, 15 February 1985
36 m awayRef 1985440HF0069
Slight
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36 m awayRef 2002440KK2701
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 24 September 1980
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 69, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2015440326429 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.