A2047 crash in Portsmouth on 8 May 2025 at 15:40 involving an Audi A3
An e-scooter and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth at 15:40 on Thursday 8 May 2025. The 21-year-old male rider of the e-scooter was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 2025
- Thursday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- E-scooter and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80669, longitude -1.07714, in the PO1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fratton, Portsmouth, PO1 5NA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440200353
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2047
- 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 September 2015.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 23 September 2015
3 m awayRef 2015440329083
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 4 October 2013
3 m awayRef 2013440376765
Slight
Bus crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 20 May 1983
3 m awayRef 1983440RF0331
Slight
Van crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 26 February 1986
3 m awayRef 1986440RF0136
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 18 February 2025
3 m awayRef 2025440076252
Serious
Car crash on the A2047 in Portsmouth, 7 March 1988
3 m awayRef 1988440RF0165
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: E-scooter
Personal powered transporter (e-scooter or similar)
- 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
- 21 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- E-scooter
- Vehicle was an e-scooter
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, on vehicle 1 (E-scooter)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
- E-scooter
- Casualty was using an e-scooter
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 2025440200353 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.