A288 crash in Portsmouth on 24 September 2015 at 06:50 involving a Mazda 2
A bicycle and a Mazda 2 were involved in a crash on the A288 in Portsmouth at 06:50 on Thursday 24 September 2015. The 37-year-old female 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
- 24 Sep 2015
- Thursday, 06:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Mazda 2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78524, longitude -1.09402, in the PO5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Jude, Portsmouth, PO5 3LJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015440331075
- 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 January 2014.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 6 January 2014
2 m awayRef 2014440008204
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 4 December 2021
3 m awayRef 2021440486763
Serious
Car crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 6 May 1989
4 m awayRef 1989440KC0149
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 17 May 2025
6 m awayRef 2025440214636
Serious
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 24 October 1990
13 m awayRef 1990440KC0286
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 21 April 2003
13 m awayRef 2003440KK0788
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda 2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 37, on vehicle 1 (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 2015440331075 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.