Serious A286 crash in Chichester on 5 December 2007 at 07:34 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the A286 in Chichester at 07:34 on Wednesday 5 December 2007. A 53-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Dec 2007
- Wednesday, 07:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04907, longitude -0.72256, in the GU27 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470710202
- 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
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with 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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 2010.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 20 October 2010
32 m awayRef 2010471007028
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the A286 in Chichester, 25 September 2025
34 m awayRef 2025471647028
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A286 in Chichester, 2 September 1999
40 m awayRef 199947Y002516
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A286 in Chichester, 23 December 1990
41 m awayRef 199047YA00982
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A286 in Chichester, 24 June 1994
45 m awayRef 199447YA40403
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A286 in Chichester, 4 September 1995
45 m awayRef 199547YA50587
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2007470710202 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 2007.