Serious A2047 crash in Portsmouth on 16 September 2016 at 17:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A2047 in Portsmouth at 17:40 on Friday 16 September 2016. A 23-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 45-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Sep 2016
- Friday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83316, longitude -1.07121, in the PO2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hilsea, Portsmouth, PO2 9QJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016440350401
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2047
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 92%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 8%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 2019.
Slight
Car crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 8 May 2019
2 m awayRef 2019440157491
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 1 August 2017
3 m awayRef 2017440295704
Slight
Car crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 23 January 2025
3 m awayRef 2025440046647
Slight
Renault Captur crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 11 December 2020
4 m awayRef 2020440477967
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 15 May 2012
5 m awayRef 2012440186579
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 3 January 2023
5 m awayRef 2023440003859
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2016440350401 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 2016.