C road crash in Chichester PO10 on 9 January 1990 at 20:55 involving a Reliant Robin
A Reliant Robin crashed on a C road in Chichester at 20:55 on Tuesday 9 January 1990. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jan 1990
- Tuesday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Reliant Robin
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87475, longitude -0.92604, in the PO10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199047YA00017
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Reliant Robin
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Reliant Robin)
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 199047YA00017 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 1990.