A259 crash in Chichester on 22 July 2017 at 17:22 involving a Ford Transit Custom van
A Ford Transit Custom van, a Honda Civic and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the A259 in Chichester at 17:22 on Saturday 22 July 2017. The 26-year-old female driver of the Honda Civic was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jul 2017
- Saturday, 17:22
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Transit Custom and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.834, longitude -0.80302, 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
- 2017471704129
- 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
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 19 July 2014.
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A259 in Chichester, 19 July 2014
1 m awayRef 2014471404102
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A259 in Chichester, 20 December 2017
3 m awayRef 2017471707258
Serious
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A259 in Chichester, 2 May 2013
4 m awayRef 2013471302179
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A259 in Chichester, 15 December 2004
4 m awayRef 200447K181875
Slight
New Holland crash on the A259 in Chichester, 20 September 2002
4 m awayRef 200247K154761
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Chichester, 11 August 2017
5 m awayRef 2017471704509
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
- 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 2017471704129 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.