A259 crash in Worthing on 14 November 1980 at 17:55 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A259 in Worthing at 17:55 on Friday 14 November 1980. The 17-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 1980
- Friday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81328, longitude -0.35157, in the BN11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198047XA00812
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2223
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2009.
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A259 in Worthing, 31 October 2009
At the same spotRef 2009470908119
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A259 in Worthing, 14 January 2002
At the same spotRef 200247X146237
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on the A259 in Worthing, 26 March 1997
At the same spotRef 199747XA70163
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Worthing, 24 December 1979
At the same spotRef 197947XA90928
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A259 in Worthing, 6 December 2019
At the same spotRef 2019470906748
Slight
BMW 2 Series crash on the A259 in Worthing, 12 October 2019
1 m awayRef 2019470887206
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 17, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 198047XA00812 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.