A3 crash in Portsmouth on 16 July 2017 at 17:37 involving a Skoda Octavia
A Skoda Octavia and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A3 in Portsmouth at 17:37 on Sunday 16 July 2017. The 24-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 2017
- Sunday, 17:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Octavia and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80805, longitude -1.0878, in the PO1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Charles Dickens, Portsmouth, PO1 4AY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440273387
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2022.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 11 October 2022
4 m awayRef 2022440413810
Slight
Honda SH50H crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 30 August 1994
8 m awayRef 1994440RF0529
Fatal
MG Montego crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 25 July 1994
8 m awayRef 1994440RF0457
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 12 November 2023
9 m awayRef 2023440462685
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 6 January 2021
9 m awayRef 2021440005564
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 10 November 2025
10 m awayRef 2025440508933
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017440273387 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 2017.