Unclassified road crash in Chichester PO19 on 12 December 2011 at 11:25 involving a Mercedes van
A Mercedes van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Chichester at 11:25 on Monday 12 December 2011. An 85-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2011
- Monday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83669, longitude -0.7777, 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
- 2011471108129
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 2011.
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6 m awayRef 2011471105501
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Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 4 April 1996
13 m awayRef 199647YA60240
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 13 September 2005
23 m awayRef 2005470507501
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Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 3 November 1999
36 m awayRef 199947Y002745
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Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 4 June 2003
42 m awayRef 200347K163478
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 31 October 1998
45 m awayRef 199847Y001187
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 85, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
- 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 2011471108129 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.