Unclassified road crash in Havant PO9 on 5 December 2018 at 07:31 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Seat Ibiza were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Havant at 07:31 on Wednesday 5 December 2018. The 25-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2018
- Wednesday, 07:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86421, longitude -0.99649, in the PO9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havant. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leigh Park Hermitage, Havant, PO9 3SG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havant
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440453592
- Council area
- Havant
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
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
- 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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 July 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Havant, 1 July 1983
2 m awayRef 1983440JH0259
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Havant, 23 November 2018
2 m awayRef 2018440439899
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Havant, 3 June 2025
22 m awayRef 2025440245107
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Havant, 19 January 2015
23 m awayRef 2015440019877
Slight
Mobility scooter crash on an unclassified road in Havant, 17 September 2016
23 m awayRef 2016440350839
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Havant, 20 July 1984
24 m awayRef 1984440JH0307
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 2018440453592 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havant road accident statistics for 2018.