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A27 crash in Adur on 16 December 1980 at 07:15 involving a car

A car crashed on the A27 in Adur at 07:15 on Tuesday 16 December 1980. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
16 Dec 1980
Tuesday, 07:15
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84214, longitude -0.29445, in the BN15 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Adur

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198047XA00875
Council area
Adur
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
27
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
C

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 December 2020.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside, crossed central reservation
    Hit object off carriageway
    Nearside or offside crash barrier
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    24 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198047XA00875 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Adur road accident statistics for 1980.