A3 crash in Portsmouth on 5 September 2025 at 21:15 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa hit a pedestrian on the A3 in Portsmouth at 21:15 on Friday 5 September 2025. A 28-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2025
- Friday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79511, longitude -1.09499, in the PO1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portsmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Thomas, Portsmouth, PO5 4AX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440403032
- Council area
- Portsmouth
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 October 2018.
Serious
Citroen C5 crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 4 October 2018
4 m awayRef 2018440373114
Serious
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 1 August 2012
4 m awayRef 2012440297785
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 27 May 1983
5 m awayRef 1983440KC0158
Slight
Car crash on the A288 in Portsmouth, 2 December 2002
5 m awayRef 2002440KK2686
Serious
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 4 March 2009
5 m awayRef 2009440095722
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A3 in Portsmouth, 20 August 2020
7 m awayRef 2020440320463
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025440403032 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.