Serious B2145 crash in Chichester on 11 December 2015 at 23:50 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B2145 in Chichester at 23:50 on Friday 11 December 2015. The 40-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Dec 2015
- Friday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80743, longitude -0.78097, in the PO20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471507392
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2145
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 12 March 2006
20 m awayRef 2006470602141
Serious
Vauxhall Astramax crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 16 December 1996
26 m awayRef 199647YA60912
Slight
Car crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 21 February 1979
26 m awayRef 197947YA90076
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 31 August 2023
58 m awayRef 2023471347037
Serious
Car crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 23 May 1997
62 m awayRef 199747YA70252
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 16 December 1991
88 m awayRef 199147YA10856
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 40, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2015471507392 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.