A272 crash in Chichester on 26 March 1991 at 10:00 involving a van
A van crashed on the A272 in Chichester at 10:00 on Tuesday 26 March 1991. A 27-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 1991
- Tuesday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99686, longitude -0.81421, in the GU31 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199147YA10180
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1993.
Slight
Kawasaki ZX900 crash on the A272 in Chichester, 22 June 1993
At the same spotRef 199347YA30361
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A272 in Chichester, 18 October 2005
10 m awayRef 2005470508651
Slight
Honda VFR750F crash on the A272 in Chichester, 20 June 1992
10 m awayRef 199247YA20364
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A272 in Chichester, 5 September 2004
14 m awayRef 200447K179516
Slight
BMW M3 crash on the A272 in Chichester, 4 July 2025
15 m awayRef 2025471611849
Serious
Suzuki SV 650 crash on the A272 in Chichester, 31 July 2016
18 m awayRef 2016471604635
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, 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 199147YA10180 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 1991.