A27 crash in Chichester on 20 March 2018 at 00:01 involving a Honda Jazz
A Honda Jazz crashed on the A27 in Chichester at 00:01 on Tuesday 20 March 2018. The 20-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Mar 2018
- Tuesday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83367, longitude -0.80072, in the PO19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fishbourne. 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
- 2018471801525
- 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
- 27
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 November 2014.
Serious
Triumph Speed Triple 1050 crash on the A27 in Chichester, 28 November 2014
4 m awayRef 2014471406990
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A27 in Chichester, 21 May 1996
13 m awayRef 199647YA60354
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Chichester, 18 September 2007
15 m awayRef 2007470707886
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A27 in Chichester, 11 November 2016
15 m awayRef 2016471606785
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on the A27 in Chichester, 21 December 2015
18 m awayRef 2015471507561
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A27 in Chichester, 13 June 2016
20 m awayRef 2016471603535
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)
- 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 2018471801525 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 2018.