Serious A3057 crash in Southampton on 21 December 2017 at 17:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A3057 in Southampton at 17:00 on Thursday 21 December 2017. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Dec 2017
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92379, longitude -1.43526, in the SO16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shirley, Southampton, SO15 5QR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southampton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440494546
- Council area
- Southampton
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3057
- 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
- 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
- 91%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 9%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 August 1984.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 19 August 1984
3 m awayRef 1984440YS0448
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3057 in Southampton, 8 November 1988
3 m awayRef 1988440YS0667
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A3057 in Southampton, 17 September 2022
7 m awayRef 2022440379754
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A3057 in Southampton, 7 July 2003
9 m awayRef 2003440SY0537
Slight
Car crash on the A3057 in Southampton, 19 October 1985
9 m awayRef 1985440YS0527
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A3057 in Southampton, 16 May 2007
9 m awayRef 2007440226642
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2017440494546 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.