A272 crash in Chichester on 8 July 1990 at 16:49 involving a Renault 5
A Renault 5 crashed on the A272 in Chichester at 16:49 on Sunday 8 July 1990. The 18-year-old male driver and a 16-year-old male passenger were 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
- 8 Jul 1990
- Sunday, 16:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault 5
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98903, longitude -0.69472, in the GU28 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199047YA00496
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- 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, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 2017.
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A272 in Chichester, 15 May 2017
24 m awayRef 2017471702671
Serious
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 10 February 1989
36 m awayRef 198947YA90095
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 11 November 1982
36 m awayRef 198247YA20629
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 24 May 1986
50 m awayRef 198647YA60266
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 1 April 1984
50 m awayRef 198447YA40164
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A272 in Chichester, 20 December 1992
50 m awayRef 199247YA20824
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,237 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 5)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 5)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199047YA00496 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.