B2146 crash in Chichester on 15 December 2014 at 15:48 involving a Peugeot 208
A Peugeot 208 and a Dennis bus were involved in a crash on the B2146 in Chichester at 15:48 on Monday 15 December 2014. A 6-year-old female passenger in the Dennis bus, the 69-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 208 and a 71-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 208 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2014
- Monday, 15:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 208 and Dennis
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8667, longitude -0.84782, in the PO18 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471407373
- 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
- 2146
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 1997.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B2146 in Chichester, 13 December 1997
9 m awayRef 199747YA70676
Serious
Car crash on the B2146 in Chichester, 23 November 1988
29 m awayRef 198847YA80611
Slight
Car crash on the B2146 in Chichester, 10 June 1986
58 m awayRef 198647YA60298
Slight
Car crash on the B2146 in Chichester, 20 January 1986
66 m awayRef 198647YA60032
Serious
Car crash on the B2146 in Chichester, 9 May 1980
167 m awayRef 198047YA00219
Slight
Car crash on the B2146 in Chichester, 12 March 1987
214 m awayRef 198747YA70106
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,883 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 6, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 208)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 208)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2014471407373 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.