C road crash in Arun RH20 on 16 May 1981 at 13:35 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Arun at 13:35 on Saturday 16 May 1981. The 68-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 1981
- Saturday, 13:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90127, longitude -0.55866, in the RH20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198147XA10337
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2009.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on a C road in Arun, 22 December 2009
41 m awayRef 2009470909663
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 3 October 2002
112 m awayRef 200247K155136
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Arun, 15 July 1987
148 m awayRef 198747XA70440
Slight
Land Rover 110 crash on a C road in Arun, 19 December 2002
234 m awayRef 200247K158302
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Arun, 15 February 1989
556 m awayRef 198947YA90188
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on a C road in Chichester, 4 November 2013
588 m awayRef 2013471305931
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, 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 198147XA10337 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Arun road accident statistics for 1981.