Unclassified road crash in Chichester GU27 on 19 December 2012 at 13:15 involving a Skoda Octavia
A Skoda Octavia and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chichester at 13:15 on Wednesday 19 December 2012. The 55-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2012
- Wednesday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Octavia and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04099, longitude -0.71579, in the GU27 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471206779
- 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
- 60 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 30 September 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 30 September 2000
14 m awayRef 200047Y127390
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 1 April 1995
81 m awayRef 199547YA50182
Serious
BMW M3 crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 1 October 2007
122 m awayRef 2007470708274
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Chichester, 13 September 1979
143 m awayRef 197947YA90483
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Chichester, 7 September 1979
215 m awayRef 197947YA90464
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Chichester, 18 January 1984
423 m awayRef 198447YA40027
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 2012471206779 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.