B2070 crash in Chichester on 13 September 2025 at 22:55 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the B2070 in Chichester at 22:55 on Saturday 13 September 2025. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 2025
- Saturday, 22:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04303, longitude -0.85628, in the GU33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hill Brow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471641370
- 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
- 2070
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 August 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the A3 in Chichester, 9 August 1979
11 m awayRef 197947YA90402
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Chichester, 23 May 1985
18 m awayRef 198547YA50244
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Chichester, 11 November 1987
32 m awayRef 198747YA70601
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A3 in Chichester, 19 December 1991
33 m awayRef 199147YA10845
Slight
Van crash on the A3 in Chichester, 23 March 1986
33 m awayRef 198647YA60140
Serious
Van crash on the A3 in Chichester, 1 March 1986
39 m awayRef 198647YA60114
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025471641370 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.