Unclassified road crash in Chichester GU29 on 13 August 2018 at 13:00 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chichester at 13:00 on Monday 13 August 2018. The 49-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Aug 2018
- Monday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98549, longitude -0.73797, in the GU29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Midhurst. It is one of the crashes that make up the Midhurst, Chichester, GU29 9JW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471804527
- 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
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 July 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the A286 in Chichester, 20 July 1985
5 m awayRef 198547YA50366
Slight
Car crash on the A286 in Chichester, 29 August 1982
11 m awayRef 198247YA20452
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Chichester, 19 November 2007
11 m awayRef 2007470709681
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 29 August 2008
21 m awayRef 2008470806667
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A286 in Chichester, 25 May 1991
21 m awayRef 199147YA10349
Slight
Car crash on the A286 in Chichester, 20 May 1985
21 m awayRef 198547YA50250
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 86 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,689 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 49, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018471804527 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.