Unclassified road crash in Chichester PO20 on 17 June 1983 at 17:15 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chichester at 17:15 on Friday 17 June 1983. The 35-year-old male driver of the van 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
- 17 Jun 1983
- Friday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8208, longitude -0.71376, in the PO20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198347YA30307
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 2014.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 28 May 2014
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Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 11 June 2014
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Serious
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 20 June 1991
177 m awayRef 199147YA10400
Serious
Nissan 350 crash on the A259 in Chichester, 8 September 2017
211 m awayRef 2017471705045
Fatal
Car crash on the A259 in Chichester, 15 July 1989
214 m awayRef 198947YA90479
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the A259 in Chichester, 26 June 2005
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198347YA30307 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 1983.