B2138 crash in Chichester on 18 October 2023 at 08:00 involving a Subaru Impreza
A Subaru Impreza and a car were involved in a crash on the B2138 in Chichester at 08:00 on Wednesday 18 October 2023. The 45-year-old male driver of the Subaru Impreza was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 2023
- Wednesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Subaru Impreza and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93476, longitude -0.56935, in the RH20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023471364330
- 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
- 2138
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
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, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 2019.
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 3 August 2019
29 m awayRef 2019470870458
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 4 October 1996
30 m awayRef 199647YA60715
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 1 September 1981
59 m awayRef 198147YA10511
Slight
Jaguar F-Pace crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 22 July 2023
78 m awayRef 2023471332295
Slight
Van crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 24 February 1997
175 m awayRef 199747YA70100
Serious
Suzuki SV 650 crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 9 March 2025
192 m awayRef 2025471562912
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Impreza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,457 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Impreza)
- 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 2023471364330 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 2023.