Unclassified road crash in Portsmouth PO2 on 19 December 2017 at 07:50 involving a Honda WW125 motorcycle
A Honda WW125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Portsmouth at 07:50 on Tuesday 19 December 2017. The 20-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2017
- Tuesday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda WW125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81142, longitude -1.0699, in the PO2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nelson, Portsmouth, PO2 7AZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440490748
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Frost or ice
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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 1990.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 23 April 1990
16 m awayRef 1990440RF0269
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 6 November 1986
20 m awayRef 1986440RF0714
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 14 March 2016
27 m awayRef 2016440103131
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 3 February 1989
34 m awayRef 1989440RF0086
Slight
Vauxhall Viva crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 17 December 1991
34 m awayRef 1991440RF0733
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 23 March 1988
34 m awayRef 1988440RF0202
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda WW125)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017440490748 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.