Serious B2198 crash in Chichester on 4 September 2014 at 12:03 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on the B2198 in Chichester at 12:03 on Thursday 4 September 2014. A 67-year-old female pedestrian hit by the Vauxhall Astra was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Sep 2014
- Thursday, 12:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76885, longitude -0.85451, in the PO20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471405117
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2198
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 2024.
Slight
Car crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 13 February 2024
6 m awayRef 2024471410784
Slight
Car crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 6 June 1986
9 m awayRef 198647YA60299
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 15 May 2004
13 m awayRef 200447K174849
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 4 March 2023
16 m awayRef 2023471283126
Slight
Car crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 23 August 1980
23 m awayRef 198047YA00448
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 1 December 2017
24 m awayRef 2017471706871
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 67, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2014471405117 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.