A285 crash in Chichester on 24 September 2006 at 04:30 involving a Vauxhall Vivaro van
A Vauxhall Vivaro van crashed on the A285 in Chichester at 04:30 on Sunday 24 September 2006. The 28-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 2006
- Sunday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vivaro
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87997, longitude -0.67928, 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
- 2006470607952
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 2025.
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A285 in Chichester, 11 September 2025
22 m awayRef 2025471640255
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A285 in Chichester, 25 October 1991
36 m awayRef 199147YA10714
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A285 in Chichester, 26 January 2024
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Serious
Volvo 240 crash on the A285 in Chichester, 22 June 2000
71 m awayRef 200047Y003680
Serious
Vauxhall Grandland crash on the A285 in Chichester, 10 May 2022
73 m awayRef 2022471175542
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A285 in Chichester, 22 December 2025
78 m awayRef 2025471686650
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vivaro
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 and overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vivaro)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vivaro)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2006470607952 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.