Unclassified road crash in Chichester PO20 on 14 July 2000 at 09:40 involving a Mazda 626
A Mazda 626 and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chichester at 09:40 on Friday 14 July 2000. The 66-year-old male 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2000
- Friday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 626 and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82318, longitude -0.73214, in the PO20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047Y003779
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 259
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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 2012.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A259 in Chichester, 2 April 2012
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Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 24 June 2023
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Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A259 in Chichester, 16 August 2005
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Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Chichester, 19 January 1982
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Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Chichester, 10 August 1980
60 m awayRef 198047YA00423
Slight
Yamaha YZF 600 R crash on the A259 in Chichester, 15 December 1997
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 626
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, 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 200047Y003779 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 2000.