A285 crash in Chichester on 2 February 2006 at 21:50 involving a Citroen Dispatch van
A Citroen Dispatch van crashed on the A285 in Chichester at 21:50 on Thursday 2 February 2006. The 48-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Feb 2006
- Thursday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Dispatch
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87368, longitude -0.68785, 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
- 2006470601007
- 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
- 285
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 12 October 2003.
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A285 in Chichester, 12 October 2003
10 m awayRef 200347K167658
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A285 in Chichester, 30 October 2012
32 m awayRef 2012471205715
Slight
Toyota Verso crash on the A285 in Chichester, 10 November 2024
38 m awayRef 2024471517963
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the A285 in Chichester, 21 August 2024
43 m awayRef 2024471483785
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A285 in Chichester, 23 July 2014
47 m awayRef 2014471404195
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A285 in Chichester, 9 November 2022
68 m awayRef 2022471241827
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Dispatch
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Dispatch)
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 2006470601007 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 2006.