Unclassified road crash in Chichester PO10 on 18 May 2021 at 01:38 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Chichester at 01:38 on Tuesday 18 May 2021. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 2021
- Tuesday, 01:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84885, longitude -0.90832, in the PO10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Southbourne, Chichester, PO10 8LD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021471047550
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 April 2025.
Serious
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 3 April 2025
8 m awayRef 2025471573191
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Chichester, 27 January 2009
8 m awayRef 2009470900721
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on a C road in Chichester, 8 March 1999
10 m awayRef 199947Y001844
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Chichester, 10 April 2006
10 m awayRef 2006470602994
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Chichester, 28 April 1998
10 m awayRef 199847Y000145
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Chichester, 11 March 2005
20 m awayRef 2005470501674
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2021471047550 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 2021.