A272 crash in Chichester on 17 October 1995 at 10:00 involving a Vauxhall Carlton
A Vauxhall Carlton crashed on the A272 in Chichester at 10:00 on Tuesday 17 October 1995. The 43-year-old female 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
- 17 Oct 1995
- Tuesday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Carlton
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00574, longitude -0.8566, in the GU31 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199547YA50698
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 March 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 3 March 1982
14 m awayRef 198247YA20092
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A272 in Chichester, 2 October 1999
14 m awayRef 199947Y002662
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A272 in Chichester, 28 November 2007
22 m awayRef 2007470710119
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A272 in Chichester, 8 October 1985
22 m awayRef 198547YA50562
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A272 in Chichester, 30 October 2003
22 m awayRef 200347K168350
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A272 in Chichester, 28 December 1995
32 m awayRef 199547YA50872
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Carlton)
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 199547YA50698 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.