A285 crash in Chichester on 13 June 2017 at 12:50 involving a BMW 1 Series
A car and a BMW 1 Series were involved in a crash on the A285 in Chichester at 12:50 on Tuesday 13 June 2017. The 25-year-old male driver of the BMW 1 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jun 2017
- Tuesday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84325, longitude -0.75824, in the PO19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chichester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chichester East, Chichester, PO19 7HH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471703308
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 285
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 285
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 2021.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A285 in Chichester, 12 November 2021
1 m awayRef 2021471109615
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A285 in Chichester, 28 July 2025
4 m awayRef 2025471621659
Serious
Kia Sportage crash on the A285 in Chichester, 2 June 2025
4 m awayRef 2025471597409
Slight
Mercedes B Class crash on the A285 in Chichester, 3 December 2017
4 m awayRef 2017471706922
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A285 in Chichester, 2 April 1996
5 m awayRef 199647YA60248
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A285 in Chichester, 12 November 2020
5 m awayRef 2020470998418
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 1 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2017471703308 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 2017.