A32 crash in Gosport on 21 December 2018 at 12:01 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Suzuki DR Z400 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A32 in Gosport at 12:01 on Friday 21 December 2018. The 50-year-old male rider of the Suzuki DR Z400 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2018
- Friday, 12:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Suzuki DR Z400
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83184, longitude -1.17159, in the PO13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gosport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridgemary, Gosport, PO13 0JA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gosport
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440473244
- Council area
- Gosport
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 32
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 July 2017.
Serious
Yamaha WR 125 crash on the A32 in Gosport, 17 July 2017
13 m awayRef 2017440274996
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A32 in Gosport, 17 August 1987
14 m awayRef 1987440GG0449
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A32 in Gosport, 22 December 1998
16 m awayRef 1998440GG0680
Serious
Kawasaki ZR1100 crash on the A32 in Gosport, 15 April 2007
16 m awayRef 2007440172852
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A32 in Gosport, 29 October 1998
21 m awayRef 1998440GG0575
Slight
Car crash on the A32 in Gosport, 14 October 1989
28 m awayRef 1989440GG0487
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki DR Z400
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 50, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki DR Z400)
- 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 2018440473244 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gosport road accident statistics for 2018.