A285 crash in Chichester on 1 March 2014 at 06:58 involving a Suzuki Carry van
A Suzuki Carry van crashed on the A285 in Chichester at 06:58 on Saturday 1 March 2014. The 75-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 2014
- Saturday, 06:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Carry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91351, longitude -0.66252, in the GU28 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471401146
- 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
- 285
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A285 in Chichester, 16 December 2005
8 m awayRef 2005470510849
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A285 in Chichester, 24 January 2003
22 m awayRef 200347K159188
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A285 in Chichester, 6 June 2004
34 m awayRef 200447K175513
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A285 in Chichester, 5 October 2017
36 m awayRef 2017471705640
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A285 in Chichester, 19 November 1994
46 m awayRef 199447YA40755
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A285 in Chichester, 20 August 2002
57 m awayRef 200247K153840
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Carry
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 75, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Carry)
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 2014471401146 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 2014.