Unclassified road crash in Worthing BN11 on 26 August 1984 at 20:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Worthing at 20:00 on Sunday 26 August 1984. A 2-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 1984
- Sunday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81819, longitude -0.36857, in the BN11 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
- 198447XA40448
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Unclassified
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 2018.
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 13 September 2018
6 m awayRef 2018471805281
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 22 August 2024
7 m awayRef 2024471484485
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 3 August 2017
8 m awayRef 2017471704382
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 20 October 1981
10 m awayRef 198147XA10755
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 30 January 1984
10 m awayRef 198447XA40036
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 23 May 1986
10 m awayRef 198647XA60245
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 2, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198447XA40448 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 1984.