Unclassified road crash in Arun PO21 on 4 July 1985 at 00:20 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Arun at 00:20 on Thursday 4 July 1985. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jul 1985
- Thursday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78794, longitude -0.68657, in the PO21 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547YA50327
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 1998.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 30 September 1998
14 m awayRef 199847Y000986
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 16 June 1993
32 m awayRef 199347YA30349
Slight
Mercedes Gla Class crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 23 July 2021
39 m awayRef 2021471069579
Slight
Ford crash on a C road in Arun, 19 December 1993
58 m awayRef 199347YA30791
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 22 February 1985
61 m awayRef 198547YA50072
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Arun, 23 April 1994
73 m awayRef 199447YA40263
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Road works
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, 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 198547YA50327 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.