A272 crash in Chichester on 1 March 1979 at 07:15 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A272 in Chichester at 07:15 on Thursday 1 March 1979. The 26-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 1979
- Thursday, 07:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98893, longitude -0.76839, in the GU29 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197947YA90100
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 17 April 1981
40 m awayRef 198147YA10238
Slight
Van crash on the A272 in Chichester, 16 November 1983
80 m awayRef 198347YA30645
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 25 December 1979, ref 197947YA90708
132 m awayRef 197947YA90708
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 25 December 1979, ref 197947YA90688
133 m awayRef 197947YA90688
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A272 in Chichester, 4 April 2016
164 m awayRef 2016471601995
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A272 in Chichester, 14 May 1996
171 m awayRef 199647YA60339
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 26, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 197947YA90100 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chichester road accident statistics for 1979.