Serious B2155 crash in Portsmouth on 11 November 2017 at 00:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B2155 in Portsmouth at 00:40 on Saturday 11 November 2017. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Nov 2017
- Saturday, 00:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78586, longitude -1.0769, in the PO5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 0DP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Portsmouth
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440439058
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2155
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 91%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 9%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2155 in Portsmouth, 6 August 1985
20 m awayRef 1985440VS0335
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2134 in Portsmouth, 18 July 1983
29 m awayRef 1983440VS0275
Slight
Car crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 21 October 1983
29 m awayRef 1983440VS0427
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B2155 in Portsmouth, 25 June 2024
31 m awayRef 2024440267976
Slight
Taxi crash on the B2155 in Portsmouth, 1 April 2000
32 m awayRef 2000440KS0253
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 29 July 1980
36 m awayRef 1980440KS0268
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017440439058 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.