Serious unclassified road crash in Portsmouth PO3 on 27 January 2025 at 18:21 involving a DS DS4
A DS DS4 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Portsmouth at 18:21 on Monday 27 January 2025. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jan 2025
- Monday, 18:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- DS DS4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82637, longitude -1.06598, in the PO3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hilsea, Portsmouth, PO2 9QJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440039971
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 93%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 7%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 2018.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 11 May 2018
3 m awayRef 2018440174916
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 25 November 1990
7 m awayRef 1990440RF0716
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 3 June 1999
12 m awayRef 1999440RF0382
Slight
Car crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 6 October 1988
13 m awayRef 1988440RF0638
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 8 September 1979
18 m awayRef 1979440KF0522
Slight
Car crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 22 April 1979
18 m awayRef 1979440KF0213
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: DS DS4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (DS DS4)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2025440039971 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 2025.