A259 crash in Chichester on 15 December 2000 at 10:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a car were involved in a crash on the A259 in Chichester at 10:00 on Friday 15 December 2000. The 54-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2000
- Friday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8195, longitude -0.7162, in the PO20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047Y130874
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 2001.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A259 in Chichester, 31 March 2001
At the same spotRef 200147Y136170
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A259 in Chichester, 8 May 1997
At the same spotRef 199747YA70225
Fatal
Car crash on the A259 in Chichester, 15 July 1989
10 m awayRef 198947YA90479
Slight
Yamaha XJ 600 S Diversion crash on the A259 in Chichester, 1 December 2000
22 m awayRef 200047Y129818
Slight
Leyland crash on the A259 in Chichester, 7 May 1994
22 m awayRef 199447YA40294
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Chichester, 14 December 1996
22 m awayRef 199647YA60901
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200047Y130874 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.