Serious unclassified road crash in Southampton SO17 on 10 December 2017 at 19:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Southampton at 19:00 on Sunday 10 December 2017. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Dec 2017
- Sunday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93669, longitude -1.38037, in the SO17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Swaythling, Southampton, SO17 3TF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southampton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440479713
- Council area
- Southampton
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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
- 90%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 10%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A335 in Southampton, 8 June 1986
6 m awayRef 1986440WP0269
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 11 February 1991
6 m awayRef 1991440WP0069
Serious
Car crash on the A335 in Southampton, 29 December 1983
6 m awayRef 1983440WP0695
Serious
BMW 2 Series crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 17 September 2025
9 m awayRef 2025440421747
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 28 January 2022
13 m awayRef 2022440038537
Serious
Car crash on the A335 in Southampton, 21 June 1987
14 m awayRef 1987440WP0297
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017440479713 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southampton road accident statistics for 2017.