A397 crash in Portsmouth on 18 June 2024 at 15:59 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a van were involved in a crash on the A397 in Portsmouth at 15:59 on Tuesday 18 June 2024. The 38-year-old male cyclist 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
- 18 Jun 2024
- Tuesday, 15:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84121, longitude -1.06998, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024440256639
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 397
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A397 in Portsmouth, 14 February 2012
1 m awayRef 2012440062488
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A397 in Portsmouth, 28 August 2015
1 m awayRef 2015440298885
Slight
Honda CB crash on the A397 in Portsmouth, 11 June 2025
4 m awayRef 2025440256030
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A397 in Portsmouth, 21 July 2016
8 m awayRef 2016440272442
Slight
Skoda Roomster crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 22 August 2013
11 m awayRef 2013440317791
Serious
Car crash on the A397 in Portsmouth, 22 April 1983
13 m awayRef 1983440CC0144
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 38, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2024440256639 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.