Serious A27 crash in Chichester on 28 January 1993 at 07:45 involving a lorry
A lorry and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A27 in Chichester at 07:45 on Thursday 28 January 1993. The 53-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jan 1993
- Thursday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84807, longitude -0.7488, 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
- 199347YA30069
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 27
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 January 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Chichester, 12 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198947YA90023
Slight
Lorry crash on the A27 in Chichester, 4 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198947YA90644
Slight
Zastava Yugo crash on the A27 in Chichester, 23 September 1992
22 m awayRef 199247YA20571
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Chichester, 26 June 1996
28 m awayRef 199647YA60447
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A27 in Chichester, 18 January 1991
50 m awayRef 199147YA10058
Slight
Lorry crash on the A27 in Chichester, 12 January 1979
58 m awayRef 197947YA90010
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 53, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 199347YA30069 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 1993.