A286 crash in Chichester on 6 October 1992 at 12:50 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A286 in Chichester at 12:50 on Tuesday 6 October 1992. The 28-year-old male driver was 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
- 6 Oct 1992
- Tuesday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89043, longitude -0.79217, in the PO18 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199247YA20608
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 October 1981.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A286 in Chichester, 24 October 1981
20 m awayRef 198147YA10638
Serious
Car crash on the A286 in Chichester, 18 November 1981
20 m awayRef 198147YA10697
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A286 in Chichester, 3 August 2025
24 m awayRef 2025471624294
Fatal
Car crash on the A286 in Chichester, 5 July 1980
30 m awayRef 198047YA00338
Serious
Austin Morris Mini crash on the A286 in Chichester, 9 August 1991
51 m awayRef 199147YA10549
Slight
Car crash on the A286 in Chichester, 29 October 1985
61 m awayRef 198547YA50613
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199247YA20608 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 1992.