Unclassified road crash in Chichester PO19 on 7 December 2015 at 08:40 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Chichester at 08:40 on Monday 7 December 2015. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2015
- Monday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83596, longitude -0.76586, in the PO19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chichester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chichester South, Chichester, PO19 7XL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471507257
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A259 in Chichester, 17 April 1996
22 m awayRef 199647YA60271
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Chichester, 2 July 1979
22 m awayRef 197947YA90306
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Chichester, 5 July 1988
23 m awayRef 198847YA80328
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Chichester, 11 November 1993
26 m awayRef 199347YA30684
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A259 in Chichester, 20 April 2011
29 m awayRef 2011471102486
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A259 in Chichester, 7 December 2016
30 m awayRef 2016471607403
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 2015471507257 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.