A27 crash in Chichester on 21 December 2015 at 07:15 involving a Toyota MR2
A Toyota MR2 crashed on the A27 in Chichester at 07:15 on Monday 21 December 2015. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2015
- Monday, 07:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota MR2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83355, longitude -0.80091, in the PO19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chichester West, Chichester, PO19 3JU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471507561
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2016.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A27 in Chichester, 11 November 2016
5 m awayRef 2016471606785
Serious
Triumph Speed Triple 1050 crash on the A27 in Chichester, 28 November 2014
18 m awayRef 2014471406990
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A27 in Chichester, 20 March 2018
18 m awayRef 2018471801525
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A27 in Chichester, 2 May 1995
19 m awayRef 199547YA50265
Serious
Car crash on the A27 in Chichester, 10 July 1987
19 m awayRef 198747YA70358
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A27 in Chichester, 13 June 2016
20 m awayRef 2016471603535
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota MR2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,990 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota MR2)
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 2015471507561 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.