A286 crash in Chichester on 23 August 2009 at 01:52 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the A286 in Chichester at 01:52 on Sunday 23 August 2009. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 2009
- Sunday, 01:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83723, longitude -0.78459, in the PO19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chichester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chichester Central, Chichester, PO19 1YA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009470906154
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A286 in Chichester, 5 November 1983
At the same spotRef 198347YA30609
Slight
Car crash on the A286 in Chichester, 1 August 1980
10 m awayRef 198047YA00396
Serious
Mazda 121 crash on the A2860 in Chichester, 9 December 2002
10 m awayRef 200247K157741
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A286 in Chichester, 27 November 2025
13 m awayRef 2025471674958
Slight
Freight Rover Sherpa crash on the A286 in Chichester, 14 January 1994
14 m awayRef 199447YA40093
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A286 in Chichester, 18 April 2016
16 m awayRef 2016471602276
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 2009470906154 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 2009.