Serious unclassified road crash in Havant PO8 on 18 May 2016 at 17:00 involving a Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle
A Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle and a Kia Sorento were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Havant at 17:00 on Wednesday 18 May 2016. The 22-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 May 2016
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha YZF R125 and Kia Sorento
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90277, longitude -1.0157, in the PO8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Horndean. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cowplain, Havant, PO8 8JG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havant
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016440186784
- Council area
- Havant
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 92%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 8%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2013.
Slight
Citroen Relay crash on an unclassified road in Havant, 16 May 2013
3 m awayRef 2013440176416
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Hampshire, 17 July 1989
4 m awayRef 1989440CW0269
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Havant, 25 August 1997
4 m awayRef 1997440JW0326
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Havant, 14 July 2006
6 m awayRef 2006440268672
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Havant, 5 May 2006
6 m awayRef 2006440167736
Slight
Seat Alhambra crash on an unclassified road in Havant, 24 December 2015
6 m awayRef 2015440451999
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YZF R125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Kia Sorento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha YZF R125)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 2016440186784 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havant road accident statistics for 2016.