B2179 crash in Chichester on 8 December 2011 at 12:26 involving a car
A car crashed on the B2179 in Chichester at 12:26 on Thursday 8 December 2011. The 85-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 12:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78737, longitude -0.88619, in the PO20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471107783
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2179
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 2018.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 6 June 2018
27 m awayRef 2018471803094
Slight
Car crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 4 August 1987
38 m awayRef 198747YA70395
Slight
Car crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 8 December 1988
45 m awayRef 198847YA80635
Slight
Car crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 21 July 1981
52 m awayRef 198147YA10396
Serious
Saab 9-3 crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 9 December 2018
69 m awayRef 2018471806869
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 4 June 2023
70 m awayRef 2023471315169
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 85 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 85, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2011471107783 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 2011.