A272 crash in Chichester on 24 February 2008 at 10:50 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 and a car were involved in a crash on the A272 in Chichester at 10:50 on Sunday 24 February 2008. A 23-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 306 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 2008
- Sunday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 306 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98665, longitude -0.64947, in the GU28 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008470801546
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 2006.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A272 in Chichester, 6 April 2006
14 m awayRef 2006470602816
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A272 in Chichester, 2 July 2008
20 m awayRef 2008470805268
Fatal
Ford Mondeo crash on the A272 in Chichester, 8 September 2001
20 m awayRef 200147Y141329
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A272 in Chichester, 10 October 2010
22 m awayRef 2010471006767
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 15 September 1989
32 m awayRef 198947YA90669
Fatal
Rover Mini crash on the A272 in Chichester, 21 August 1994
32 m awayRef 199447YA40542
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- 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 2008470801546 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 2008.