Serious A272 crash in Chichester on 29 December 2005 at 00:19 involving a Subaru Impreza
A Subaru Impreza crashed on the A272 in Chichester at 00:19 on Thursday 29 December 2005. The 40-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Dec 2005
- Thursday, 00:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Subaru Impreza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99032, longitude -0.71163, in the GU29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005470511191
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 2003.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A272 in Chichester, 18 March 2003
At the same spotRef 200347K160954
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 16 August 1985
22 m awayRef 198547YA50436
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A272 in Chichester, 4 May 1999
22 m awayRef 199947Y002065
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 15 November 1979
22 m awayRef 197947YA90608
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on the A272 in Chichester, 8 January 2019
32 m awayRef 2019471900109
Serious
Citroen Dispatch crash on the A272 in Chichester, 2 September 2016
48 m awayRef 2016471605281
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Impreza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Impreza)
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 2005470511191 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 2005.