M275 crash in Portsmouth on 31 December 2016 at 06:30 involving a Hyundai i10
A Hyundai i10 crashed on the M275 in Portsmouth at 06:30 on Saturday 31 December 2016. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai i10
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83482, longitude -1.08519, in the PO2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3FP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016440490266
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 275
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Motorway
- Second road number
- 275
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a fatal crash on 12 January 2020.
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the M275 in Portsmouth, 12 January 2020
7 m awayRef 2020440014162
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the M275 in Portsmouth, 14 September 2009
10 m awayRef 2009440401925
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the M275 in Portsmouth, 18 April 2022
21 m awayRef 2022440151883
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the M275 in Portsmouth, 8 February 2011
28 m awayRef 2011440057314
Slight
Fiat 127 crash on the M27 in Portsmouth, 25 July 1992
32 m awayRef 1992440CC0320
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the M27 in Portsmouth, 5 March 1996
32 m awayRef 1996440CC0108
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i10
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i10)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016440490266 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.