Serious B2133 crash in Chichester on 28 July 2017 at 08:10 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B2133 in Chichester at 08:10 on Friday 28 July 2017. The 31-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jul 2017
- Friday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06316, longitude -0.51541, in the RH14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471704247
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2133
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 May 2012.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B2133 in Chichester, 20 May 2012
19 m awayRef 2012471202949
Serious
Toyota Aygo crash on the B2133 in Chichester, 15 September 2022
34 m awayRef 2022471221986
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the B2133 in Chichester, 6 April 2004
42 m awayRef 200447K173778
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the B2133 in Chichester, 26 June 2003
47 m awayRef 200347K164276
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2133 in Chichester, 31 December 1997
47 m awayRef 199747YA70696
Serious
Volvo 360 crash on the B2133 in Chichester, 26 March 1992
47 m awayRef 199247YA20153
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017471704247 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.