A286 crash in Chichester on 5 October 1995 at 10:45 involving a Ford Escort
A minibus and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A286 in Chichester at 10:45 on Thursday 5 October 1995. The 41-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 1995
- Thursday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Minibus and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98789, longitude -0.73835, in the GU29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Midhurst.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199547YA50694
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 286
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A286 in Chichester, 18 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198847YA80415
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A286 in Chichester, 8 April 1983
10 m awayRef 198347YA30168
Slight
Car crash on the A286 in Chichester, 23 March 1989
10 m awayRef 198947YA90212
Serious
Van crash on the A272 in Chichester, 28 February 1997
10 m awayRef 199747YA70108
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A286 in Chichester, 25 June 1990
10 m awayRef 199047YA00445
Serious
Bus crash on the A272 in Chichester, 17 January 2001
14 m awayRef 200147Y132410
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Minibus
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 199547YA50694 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 1995.