C road crash in Chichester GU31 on 9 April 1982 at 23:00 involving a van
A van crashed on a C road in Chichester at 23:00 on Friday 9 April 1982. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 1982
- Friday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99045, longitude -0.85654, in the GU31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198247YA20160
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 198247YA20160 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 1982.