A288 crash in Portsmouth on 12 August 2025 at 19:11 involving a Kawasaki ZX motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX motorcycle and a BMW 1 Series were involved in a crash on the A288 in Portsmouth at 19:11 on Tuesday 12 August 2025. The 36-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX motorcycle 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
- 12 Aug 2025
- Tuesday, 19:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki ZX and BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79594, longitude -1.05915, in the PO4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Milton, Portsmouth, PO4 8GU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440363784
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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 slight injury crash on 20 December 2017.
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 20 December 2017
3 m awayRef 2017440492697
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 20 January 2012
4 m awayRef 2012440028691
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 10 August 2018
4 m awayRef 2018440303114
Slight
Car crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 16 January 1986
4 m awayRef 1986440VS0018
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 3 January 1986
4 m awayRef 1986440VS0006
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on an unclassified road in Portsmouth, 8 August 2018
6 m awayRef 2018440300104
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 636 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025440363784 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.