A2030 crash in Portsmouth on 4 November 2018 at 04:00 involving a taxi
A taxi crashed on the A2030 in Portsmouth at 04:00 on Sunday 4 November 2018. A 22-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2018
- Sunday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79544, longitude -1.0924, 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
- 2018440414222
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2030
- 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, 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 2009.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 25 September 2009
9 m awayRef 2009440418495
Slight
Mercedes 500 crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 10 January 1994
13 m awayRef 1994440KC0008
Slight
Car crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 26 January 1989
13 m awayRef 1989440KC0027
Serious
Car crash on the A2030 in Portsmouth, 29 October 2004
23 m awayRef 2004440KK2109
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 29 September 2025
26 m awayRef 2025440440033
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 27 January 1996
26 m awayRef 1996440KC0033
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2018440414222 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.