Serious unclassified road crash in Arun BN17 on 15 June 1985 at 21:00 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Arun at 21:00 on Saturday 15 June 1985. There were five casualties: two people were seriously injured and three were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jun 1985
- Saturday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 5
- 2 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80744, longitude -0.56283, in the BN17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547XA50263
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 51 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 June 2010.
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 15 June 2010
51 m awayRef 2010471003883
Slight
BMW M5 crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 8 April 2000
85 m awayRef 200047X004525
Serious
Citroen C2 crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 7 October 2017
123 m awayRef 2017471705662
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 17 September 1999
146 m awayRef 199947X003448
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 28 September 2014
158 m awayRef 2014471405574
Fatal
Nissan X-Trail crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 25 December 2018
180 m awayRef 2018471807182
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198547XA50263 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 1985.