Serious A283 crash in Chichester on 17 September 1980 at 07:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the A283 in Chichester at 07:45 on Wednesday 17 September 1980. The 35-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Sep 1980
- Wednesday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0373, longitude -0.63817, in the GU28 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198047YA00515
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 283
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 78 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 September 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A283 in Chichester, 10 September 1988
78 m awayRef 198847YA80459
Serious
Car crash on the A283 in Chichester, 17 February 1989
106 m awayRef 198947YA90118
Slight
Porsche Cayman crash on the A283 in Chichester, 7 November 2021
117 m awayRef 2021471107341
Slight
Suzuki GSXR crash on the A283 in Chichester, 25 July 2025
119 m awayRef 2025471620583
Slight
Jaguar XF Series crash on the A283 in Chichester, 29 December 2010
170 m awayRef 2010471008799
Slight
Car crash on the A283 in Chichester, 26 July 1986
177 m awayRef 198647YA60413
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198047YA00515 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.