Serious unclassified road crash in Gosport PO12 on 17 August 2016 at 13:15 involving a Ford Transit van
A motorcycle and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gosport at 13:15 on Wednesday 17 August 2016. The 31-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Aug 2016
- Wednesday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79635, longitude -1.14863, in the PO12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gosport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brockhurst & Privett, Gosport, PO12 3SX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gosport
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016440317597
- Council area
- Gosport
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 90%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 10%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2018.
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Gosport, 14 December 2018
2 m awayRef 2018440464987
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Gosport, 18 March 2013
2 m awayRef 2013440100448
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gosport, 29 December 1985
4 m awayRef 1985440GG0682
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Gosport, 5 December 1984
4 m awayRef 1984440GG0669
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Gosport, 27 January 1995
6 m awayRef 1995440GG0042
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Gosport, 1 November 2008
10 m awayRef 2008440486518
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 782 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2016440317597 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gosport road accident statistics for 2016.