Serious B2201 crash in Chichester on 23 March 1980 at 23:40 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on the B2201 in Chichester at 23:40 on Sunday 23 March 1980. A 23-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Mar 1980
- Sunday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8146, longitude -0.79015, in the PO20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198047YA00141
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2201
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 29 September 1996.
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B2201 in Chichester, 29 September 1996
At the same spotRef 199647YA60696
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the B2201 in Chichester, 15 May 1997
At the same spotRef 199747YA70240
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B2201 in Chichester, 23 May 2020
4 m awayRef 2020470952957
Serious
Car crash on the B2201 in Chichester, 15 October 1999
28 m awayRef 199947Y002667
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B2201 in Chichester, 30 June 2003
28 m awayRef 200347K164376
Slight
Hyundai Lantra crash on the B2201 in Chichester, 27 October 2007
71 m awayRef 2007470709380
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 198047YA00141 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 1980.