A272 crash in Chichester on 9 December 2014 at 11:00 involving a Vauxhall Agila
A Vauxhall Agila and a Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A272 in Chichester at 11:00 on Tuesday 9 December 2014. The 46-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Agila and Suzuki GSXR 1000
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00872, longitude -0.84285, in the GU31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471407219
- 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
- 272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A272 in Chichester, 24 September 2013
1 m awayRef 2013471305037
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 21 November 1980
3 m awayRef 198047YA00669
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A272 in Chichester, 21 May 1999
30 m awayRef 199947Y002128
Serious
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 30 May 1979
42 m awayRef 197947YA90242
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A272 in Chichester, 27 January 2017
61 m awayRef 2017471700597
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 1 April 1996
71 m awayRef 199647YA60222
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Agila
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 90 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSXR 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 46, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSXR 1000)
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 2014471407219 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.