A27 crash in Chichester on 21 December 2014 at 12:30 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Fiat Ducato van were involved in a crash on the A27 in Chichester at 12:30 on Sunday 21 December 2014. The 91-year-old male driver of the Ford KA was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2014
- Sunday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Fiat Ducato
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84895, longitude -0.84442, in the PO18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471407545
- 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
- 27
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a fatal crash on 13 October 2016.
Fatal
Mercedes crash on the A27 in Chichester, 13 October 2016
6 m awayRef 2016471606149
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A27 in Chichester, 27 October 1997
37 m awayRef 199747YA70558
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A27 in Chichester, 25 August 2022
49 m awayRef 2022471212544
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A27 in Chichester, 27 October 1997
49 m awayRef 199747YA70557
Slight
Toyota crash on the A27 in Chichester, 28 June 2004
49 m awayRef 200447K176336
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A27 in Chichester, 15 August 1995
104 m awayRef 199547YA50523
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 91 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Ducato
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 91, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 2014471407545 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.