B2145 crash in Chichester on 18 December 2015 at 00:40 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B2145 in Chichester at 00:40 on Friday 18 December 2015. The 39-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2015
- Friday, 00:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74664, longitude -0.78079, in the PO20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sidlesham with Selsey North, Chichester, PO20 9DY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471507492
- 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
- 2145
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, no street lighting
- 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, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 July 2017.
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 23 July 2017
7 m awayRef 2017471704153
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 12 November 2016
17 m awayRef 2016471606803
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the B2145 in Arun, 23 February 2004
17 m awayRef 200447K172363
Slight
Car crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 9 January 2018
19 m awayRef 2018471800175
Slight
Honda NE50M crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 10 September 1991
21 m awayRef 199147YA10619
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 8 August 1995
21 m awayRef 199547YA50506
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2015471507492 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.