A272 crash in Chichester on 25 June 2022 at 22:22 involving an Audi A5
An Audi A5 crashed on the A272 in Chichester at 22:22 on Saturday 25 June 2022. An 18-year-old male passenger and the 19-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jun 2022
- Saturday, 22:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A5
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98751, longitude -0.63639, in the GU28 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022471192069
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- 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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 23 December 1989
9 m awayRef 198947YA90920
Fatal
Van crash on the A272 in Chichester, 3 July 1982
9 m awayRef 198247YA20315
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 15 July 1986
14 m awayRef 198647YA60385
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 7 November 1981
18 m awayRef 198147YA10675
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A272 in Chichester, 22 September 1992
24 m awayRef 199247YA20568
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A272 in Chichester, 2 October 2002
33 m awayRef 200247K155087
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A5)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A5)
- 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 2022471192069 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 2022.