A272 crash in Chichester on 30 March 2018 at 15:42 involving a Kia Rio
A Kia Rio crashed on the A272 in Chichester at 15:42 on Friday 30 March 2018. The 78-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2018
- Friday, 15:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Rio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98856, longitude -0.69394, in the GU29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471801746
- 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
- 272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 September 2024.
Serious
Yamaha XJR crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 15 September 2024
2 m awayRef 2024471491750
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A272 in Chichester, 2 June 2015
3 m awayRef 2015471503052
Serious
Van crash on the A272 in Chichester, 11 June 1981
4 m awayRef 198147YA10324
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A272 in Chichester, 7 July 1991
4 m awayRef 199147YA10438
Serious
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 1 May 1981
4 m awayRef 198147YA10248
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A272 in Chichester, 19 July 1994
4 m awayRef 199447YA40458
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Rio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Rio)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018471801746 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.