Unclassified road crash in Southampton SO14 on 6 May 2023 at 22:01 involving an MG 5
An MG 5 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Southampton at 22:01 on Saturday 6 May 2023. A 23-year-old male pedestrian 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
- Slight
- Date
- 6 May 2023
- Saturday, 22:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG 5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90626, longitude -1.40651, in the SO14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bargate, Southampton, SO14 7DW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023440178652
- Council area
- Southampton
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 November 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the B3039 in Southampton, 25 November 1989
7 m awayRef 1989440SC0488
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 29 July 2017
9 m awayRef 2017440292632
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 16 December 2012
9 m awayRef 2012440486141
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 18 December 2012
11 m awayRef 2012440488281
Serious
Honda NSC crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 19 February 2021
12 m awayRef 2021440063151
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 21 April 2011
14 m awayRef 2011440166213
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 39 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (MG 5)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2023440178652 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southampton road accident statistics for 2023.