A286 crash in Chichester on 7 October 2003 at 17:35 involving a Fiat Punto
A car and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the A286 in Chichester at 17:35 on Tuesday 7 October 2003. The 66-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2003
- Tuesday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90885, longitude -0.77092, in the PO18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200347K167601
- 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
- 286
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 October 1982.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A286 in Chichester, 8 October 1982
10 m awayRef 198247YA20547
Slight
Car crash on the A286 in Chichester, 28 July 1982
10 m awayRef 198247YA20373
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A286 in Chichester, 28 October 1997
51 m awayRef 199747YA70563
Slight
Honda crash on the A286 in Chichester, 7 June 2000
63 m awayRef 200047Y003597
Serious
Minibus crash on the A286 in Chichester, 27 April 1995
91 m awayRef 199547YA50254
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A286 in Chichester, 7 August 1979
91 m awayRef 197947YA90394
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 200347K167601 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 2003.