Unclassified road crash in Chichester PO20 on 23 July 2016 at 19:39 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Chichester at 19:39 on Saturday 23 July 2016. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 2016
- Saturday, 19:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83314, longitude -0.7373, in the PO20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Mundham & Tangmere, Chichester, PO20 2AJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471604447
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2144
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B2144 in Chichester, 17 September 2003
2 m awayRef 200347K166874
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B2144 in Chichester, 1 April 2003
2 m awayRef 200347K161454
Slight
Mazda crash on the B2144 in Chichester, 7 September 2010
2 m awayRef 2010471005884
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the B2144 in Chichester, 6 May 2003
2 m awayRef 200347K162466
Serious
Volkswagen Fox crash on the B2144 in Chichester, 20 June 2022
7 m awayRef 2022471189663
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2144 in Chichester, 29 July 2017
7 m awayRef 2017471704264
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- 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
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016471604447 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.