A27 crash in Arun on 12 December 1986 at 17:10 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A27 in Arun at 17:10 on Friday 12 December 1986. A 75-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 12 Dec 1986; Friday, 17:10
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198647XA60643
Council area: Arun
Police force: Sussex

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 27
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 60 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: Daylight
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp
Carriageway hazards: Other object in carriageway

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
East
Hit object in carriageway
Other object
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
29 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from driver's offside

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 198647XA60643 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 1986.