A3 crash in Chichester on 23 May 1985 at 16:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A3 in Chichester at 16:15 on Thursday 23 May 1985. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 1985
- Thursday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04314, longitude -0.8561, in the GU33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hill Brow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547YA50244
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- 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
- 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 11 November 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Chichester, 11 November 1987
14 m awayRef 198747YA70601
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B2070 in Chichester, 13 September 2025
18 m awayRef 2025471641370
Serious
Van crash on the A3 in Chichester, 1 March 1986
22 m awayRef 198647YA60114
Serious
Car crash on the A3 in Chichester, 9 August 1979
28 m awayRef 197947YA90402
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the B2070 in Chichester, 10 April 1997
36 m awayRef 199747YA70172
Fatal
Car crash on the A3 in Chichester, 5 December 1988
36 m awayRef 198847YA80634
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198547YA50244 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 1985.