A3 crash in Portsmouth on 20 April 2018 at 23:45 involving a taxi
A taxi and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A3 in Portsmouth at 23:45 on Friday 20 April 2018. The 23-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 2018
- Friday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79277, longitude -1.09932, in the PO1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Thomas, Portsmouth, PO5 4AX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440146381
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2154
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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 31 January 2018.
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 31 January 2018
1 m awayRef 2018440041023
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 21 May 2025
2 m awayRef 2025440222780
Serious
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 24 August 1986
3 m awayRef 1986440KC0230
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 26 October 2015
4 m awayRef 2015440372016
Serious
Car crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 19 July 2020
4 m awayRef 2020440292827
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 27 April 2018
4 m awayRef 2018440155799
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 23, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- 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 2018440146381 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 2018.