Unclassified road crash in Chichester PO20 on 6 June 2018 at 11:56 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and a Toyota Landcruiser were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chichester at 11:56 on Wednesday 6 June 2018. A 3-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Landcruiser was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jun 2018
- Wednesday, 11:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Toyota Landcruiser
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78734, longitude -0.88582, in the PO20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471803094
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- B
- Second road number
- 2179
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 August 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 4 August 1987
15 m awayRef 198747YA70395
Slight
Car crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 8 December 1988
25 m awayRef 198847YA80635
Slight
Car crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 8 December 2011
27 m awayRef 2011471107783
Slight
Car crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 21 July 1981
28 m awayRef 198147YA10396
Serious
Saab 9-3 crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 9 December 2018
45 m awayRef 2018471806869
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 4 June 2023
45 m awayRef 2023471315169
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Landcruiser
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,982 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Landcruiser)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2018471803094 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.