Serious A286 crash in Chichester on 9 August 1991 at 04:11 involving an Austin Morris Mini
An Austin Morris Mini crashed on the A286 in Chichester at 04:11 on Friday 9 August 1991. The 23-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Aug 1991
- Friday, 04:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Morris Mini
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88999, longitude -0.79232, in the PO18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199147YA10549
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 286
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 2016.
Slight
Audi Q5 crash on the A286 in Chichester, 24 January 2016
23 m awayRef 2016471600516
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A286 in Chichester, 3 August 2025
29 m awayRef 2025471624294
Serious
Car crash on the A286 in Chichester, 18 November 1981
32 m awayRef 198147YA10697
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A286 in Chichester, 24 October 1981
32 m awayRef 198147YA10638
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A286 in Chichester, 6 October 1992
51 m awayRef 199247YA20608
Slight
Car crash on the A286 in Chichester, 16 January 1983
61 m awayRef 198347YA30027
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Morris Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Morris Mini)
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 199147YA10549 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.