A27 crash in Chichester on 7 November 2012 at 09:00 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 and a Volkswagen Transporter van were involved in a crash on the A27 in Chichester at 09:00 on Wednesday 7 November 2012. The 40-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Transporter van and a 42-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Transporter van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 2012
- Wednesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 106 and Volkswagen Transporter
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83399, longitude -0.802, in the PO19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chichester West, Chichester, PO19 3JU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471206804
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 27
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2015.
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A27 in Chichester, 5 May 2015
4 m awayRef 2015471502471
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A27 in Chichester, 16 July 2017
11 m awayRef 2017471704078
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Chichester, 5 November 1981
20 m awayRef 198147YA10657
Serious
Lorry crash on the A27 in Chichester, 27 February 1986
20 m awayRef 198647YA60101
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Chichester, 31 January 1982
22 m awayRef 198247YA20046
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Chichester, 25 June 1987
28 m awayRef 198747YA70331
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Transporter)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 42, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Transporter)
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 2012471206804 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.