B2145 crash in Chichester on 20 August 2018 at 15:20 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Vauxhall Combo van were involved in a crash on the B2145 in Chichester at 15:20 on Monday 20 August 2018. The 40-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Aug 2018
- Monday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82288, longitude -0.76786, in the PO20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chichester South, Chichester, PO19 8JE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471804678
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2145
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 2025.
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 14 March 2025
8 m awayRef 2025471564884
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 11 February 2020
10 m awayRef 2020470929240
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 9 September 2004
14 m awayRef 200447K178506
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 23 December 1997
14 m awayRef 199747YA70688
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 20 November 1998
25 m awayRef 199847Y001268
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 16 October 2001
49 m awayRef 200147Y142808
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Combo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018471804678 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.