C road crash in Arun BN17 on 27 November 1987 at 08:40 involving a van
A van and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Arun at 08:40 on Friday 27 November 1987. The 14-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 1987
- Friday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80832, longitude -0.53228, in the BN17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Littlehampton.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198747XA70786
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 14, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198747XA70786 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 1987.