A272 crash in Chichester on 10 September 2025 at 15:45 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the A272 in Chichester at 15:45 on Wednesday 10 September 2025. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Sep 2025
- Wednesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99553, longitude -0.58065, 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
- 2025471639885
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 18 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 March 1996.
Serious
Rover Range Rover crash on the A272 in Chichester, 8 March 1996
18 m awayRef 199647YA60172
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A272 in Chichester, 13 March 1997
51 m awayRef 199747YA70135
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A272 in Chichester, 6 January 2014
59 m awayRef 2014471400085
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A272 in Chichester, 30 June 2004
103 m awayRef 200447K176216
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 25 August 1980
110 m awayRef 198047YA00447
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A272 in Chichester, 22 March 1991
159 m awayRef 199147YA10183
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2025471639885 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 2025.