B2198 crash in Chichester on 16 January 2019 at 07:40 involving a Seat Alhambra
A Seat Alhambra crashed on the B2198 in Chichester at 07:40 on Wednesday 16 January 2019. The 66-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2019
- Wednesday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Alhambra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78032, longitude -0.84227, in the PO20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the The Witterings, Chichester, PO20 7BL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019471900273
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2198
- 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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 April 2020.
Serious
Peugeot 108 crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 5 April 2020
9 m awayRef 2020470944876
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 17 October 2025
16 m awayRef 2025471655482
Slight
Tomos crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 30 September 1991
30 m awayRef 199147YA10653
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 23 August 1999
126 m awayRef 199947Y002466
Serious
Car crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 10 September 1983
133 m awayRef 198347YA30507
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B2198 in Chichester, 26 January 2001
133 m awayRef 200147Y132726
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Alhambra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Alhambra)
- 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 2019471900273 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 2019.