A3 crash in Portsmouth on 22 July 2019 at 18:40 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A3 in Portsmouth at 18:40 on Monday 22 July 2019. The 71-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jul 2019
- Monday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84691, longitude -1.06851, in the PO6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3FZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Portsmouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019440256985
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 3
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2011.
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 11 October 2011
4 m awayRef 2011440431836
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the A397 in Portsmouth, 4 August 2006
4 m awayRef 2006440301005
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 21 April 2009
4 m awayRef 2009440172033
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 5 June 2004
4 m awayRef 2004440KK1086
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 26 September 2002
4 m awayRef 2002440KK2049
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 30 December 1994
4 m awayRef 1994440CC0600
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2019440256985 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 2019.