Serious unclassified road crash in Gosport PO13 on 20 March 2023 at 19:40 involving a bicycle
A bicycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gosport at 19:40 on Monday 20 March 2023. A 51-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 19-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Mar 2023
- Monday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80577, longitude -1.16982, in the PO13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gosport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Grange & Alver Valley, Gosport, PO13 8NU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gosport
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023440111599
- Council area
- Gosport
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 94%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 6%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 July 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Gosport, 3 July 1999
6 m awayRef 1999440GG0313
Slight
Perodua Kenari crash on an unclassified road in Gosport, 25 April 2004
10 m awayRef 2004440GG0239
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gosport, 11 January 2001
20 m awayRef 2001440GG0024
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Gosport, 3 November 2023
52 m awayRef 2023440450396
Serious
DS DS3 crash on an unclassified road in Gosport, 28 February 2025
57 m awayRef 2025440091458
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Gosport, 7 September 1991
57 m awayRef 1991440GG0445
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 51, hit by vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 19, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2023440111599 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 2023.