A286 crash in Chichester on 23 March 2013 at 09:30 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Land Rover Discovery were involved in a crash on the A286 in Chichester at 09:30 on Saturday 23 March 2013. A 60-year-old female passenger in the Land Rover Discovery and the 33-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2013
- Saturday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.02591, longitude -0.7296, 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
- 2013471301540
- 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
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 1992.
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A286 in Chichester, 2 December 1992
18 m awayRef 199247YA20763
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A286 in Chichester, 2 December 1992
25 m awayRef 199247YA20761
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on the A286 in Chichester, 8 December 2012
25 m awayRef 2012471206567
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A286 in Chichester, 21 January 1983
46 m awayRef 198347YA30046
Serious
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A286 in Chichester, 12 October 1996
53 m awayRef 199647YA60733
Slight
Van crash on the A286 in Chichester, 26 October 1988
60 m awayRef 198847YA80534
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Discovery)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 2013471301540 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 2013.