A283 crash in Chichester on 27 January 2015 at 15:55 involving a Kia Rio
A car and a Kia Rio were involved in a crash on the A283 in Chichester at 15:55 on Tuesday 27 January 2015. The 49-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jan 2015
- Tuesday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Kia Rio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07931, longitude -0.64933, in the GU8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fernhurst, Chichester, GU27 2FG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471500612
- 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
- 283
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 1980.
Slight
Van crash on the A283 in Chichester, 3 January 1980
29 m awayRef 198047YA00002
Slight
Car crash on the A283 in Chichester, 10 April 1983
39 m awayRef 198347YA30172
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the A283 in Chichester, 16 December 2021
79 m awayRef 2021471122099
Slight
Car crash on the A283 in Chichester, 31 July 1986
91 m awayRef 198647YA60431
Serious
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A283 in Chichester, 22 June 2025
93 m awayRef 2025471607752
Slight
Car crash on the A283 in Chichester, 5 June 1986
99 m awayRef 198647YA60296
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
Vehicle 2: Kia Rio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2015471500612 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 2015.