Serious unclassified road crash in Arun PO22 on 4 July 1981 at 01:25 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Arun at 01:25 on Saturday 4 July 1981. The 37-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jul 1981
- Saturday, 01:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79742, longitude -0.6819, in the PO22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bognor Regis.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198147YA10370
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 27 August 2001
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 9 April 1986
14 m awayRef 198647YA60174
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 31 January 1992
20 m awayRef 199247YA20065
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 19 November 2025
28 m awayRef 2025471670735
Slight
Talbot Horizon crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 9 December 1997
40 m awayRef 199747YA70662
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 28 September 2001
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 37, 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 198147YA10370 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.