A259 crash in Worthing on 8 September 1980 at 08:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A259 in Worthing at 08:50 on Monday 8 September 1980. The 34-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 43-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 1980
- Monday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81248, longitude -0.41718, in the BN12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198047XA00610
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 1987.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A259 in Worthing, 29 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198747XA70707
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Worthing, 9 March 1981
At the same spotRef 198147XA10159
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A259 in Worthing, 20 March 1991
At the same spotRef 199147XA10131
Serious
Citroen Xantia crash on the A259 in Worthing, 9 May 1996
At the same spotRef 199647XA60232
Serious
Datsun Sunny crash on the A259 in Worthing, 15 July 1990
At the same spotRef 199047XA00377
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Worthing, 13 September 1980
At the same spotRef 198047XA00623
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 198047XA00610 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worthing road accident statistics for 1980.