A286 crash in Chichester on 8 December 2012 at 18:41 involving a Daewoo Matiz
A Daewoo Matiz crashed on the A286 in Chichester at 18:41 on Saturday 8 December 2012. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 18:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Daewoo Matiz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.02604, longitude -0.72989, in the GU27 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fernhurst, Chichester, GU27 3HG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471206567
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 1992.
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A286 in Chichester, 2 December 1992
10 m awayRef 199247YA20763
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A286 in Chichester, 21 January 1983
22 m awayRef 198347YA30046
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A286 in Chichester, 23 March 2013
25 m awayRef 2013471301540
Serious
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A286 in Chichester, 12 October 1996
28 m awayRef 199647YA60733
Fatal
Mercedes A Class crash on the A286 in Chichester, 5 March 2017
40 m awayRef 2017471701260
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A286 in Chichester, 14 May 1999
40 m awayRef 199947Y002140
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Matiz)
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 2012471206567 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 2012.