B2198 crash in Chichester on 4 November 2014 at 13:07 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series, a Toyota Celica and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on the B2198 in Chichester at 13:07 on Tuesday 4 November 2014. The 75-year-old male driver of the Toyota Celica was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2014
- Tuesday, 13:07
- Vehicles
- 3
- BMW 5 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77101, longitude -0.85284, in the PO20 postcode district and within the built-up area of East Wittering.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471406499
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 15 February 1983
1 m awayRef 198347YA30083
Serious
Car crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 26 February 1988
9 m awayRef 198847YA80102
Slight
Austin Ambassador crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 22 September 1991
21 m awayRef 199147YA10641
Slight
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 31 December 2022
28 m awayRef 2022471259023
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 29 August 1999
42 m awayRef 199947Y002515
Slight
Car crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 21 February 1981
43 m awayRef 198147YA10101
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Celica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 3: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Celica)
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 2014471406499 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.