Serious A283 crash in Chichester on 23 April 2018 at 21:00 involving a Volkswagen Urban
A Volkswagen Urban crashed on the A283 in Chichester at 21:00 on Monday 23 April 2018. The 22-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Apr 2018
- Monday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Urban
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97588, longitude -0.58002, in the RH20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471802187
- 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
- 283
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 68 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A283 in Chichester, 17 April 1997
68 m awayRef 199747YA70187
Slight
Ford Probe crash on the A283 in Chichester, 2 September 1994
143 m awayRef 199447YA40580
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A283 in Chichester, 9 December 2016
155 m awayRef 2016471607456
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A283 in Chichester, 29 November 1983
164 m awayRef 198347YA30680
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A283 in Chichester, 1 June 2020
168 m awayRef 2020470958708
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A283 in Chichester, 10 October 2013
173 m awayRef 2013471305360
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Urban
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Urban)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018471802187 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.