A259 crash in Chichester on 24 January 2016 at 17:20 involving a Renault Modus
A Renault Modus and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A259 in Chichester at 17:20 on Sunday 24 January 2016. A 24-year-old female passenger in the Renault Modus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2016
- Sunday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Modus and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.834, longitude -0.80301, in the PO19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chichester West, Chichester, PO19 3JU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471600495
- 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
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 2014.
Slight
Mercedes CLK Class crash on the A259 in Chichester, 17 September 2014
1 m awayRef 2014471405376
Slight
Mazda E2000 crash on the A259 in Chichester, 14 February 1996
1 m awayRef 199647YA60111
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A259 in Chichester, 16 April 1994
1 m awayRef 199447YA40239
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Chichester, 23 February 1989
1 m awayRef 198947YA90172
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A259 in Chichester, 24 October 1994
1 m awayRef 199447YA40702
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Chichester, 11 August 2017
4 m awayRef 2017471704509
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Modus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Modus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
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 2016471600495 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 2016.