A27 crash in Chichester on 21 December 2007 at 15:59 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Toyota MR2 were involved in a crash on the A27 in Chichester at 15:59 on Friday 21 December 2007. The 31-year-old female driver of the Toyota MR2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2007
- Friday, 15:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Toyota MR2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85838, longitude -0.89487, in the PO10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470710786
- 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
- 27
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2025.
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Audi S5 crash on the A27 in Chichester, 21 December 2025
21 m awayRef 2025471686765
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A27 in Chichester, 9 December 2006
22 m awayRef 2006470610725
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A27 in Chichester, 11 May 2012
28 m awayRef 2012471202414
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Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the A27 in Chichester, 11 June 2011
56 m awayRef 2011471103596
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Volkswagen Polo crash on the A27 in Chichester, 9 August 2007
63 m awayRef 2007470706644
Slight
Kia Sedona crash on the A27 in Chichester, 20 September 2006
73 m awayRef 2006470607851
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota MR2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota MR2)
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 2007470710786 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.