A288 crash in Portsmouth on 29 January 2024 at 14:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A288 in Portsmouth at 14:10 on Monday 29 January 2024. A 48-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jan 2024
- Monday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78267, longitude -1.08849, in the PO5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Jude, Portsmouth, PO5 2LA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024440041908
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 288
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 2013.
Slight
Piaggio PX125 crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 21 August 2013
1 m awayRef 2013440316050
Serious
Car crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 3 April 2022
3 m awayRef 2022440133612
Serious
Bedford crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 3 August 2005
8 m awayRef 2005440611140
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 24 December 1985
17 m awayRef 1985440KC0367
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 29 September 1986
21 m awayRef 1986440VS0354
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 5 May 1990
26 m awayRef 1990440VS0192
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 48, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024440041908 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 2024.