A2025 crash in Adur on 4 May 1991 at 10:00 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry and two Austin Montegos were involved in a crash on the A2025 in Adur at 10:00 on Saturday 4 May 1991. The 24-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 1991
- Saturday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83089, longitude -0.319, in the BN15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lancing and Sompting.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199147XA10201
- Council area
- Adur
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2025
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1997.
Slight
Car crash on the A2025 in Adur, 29 March 1997
At the same spotRef 199747XA70170
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A2025 in Adur, 26 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198947XA90406
Slight
Car crash on the A2025 in Adur, 11 February 1988
At the same spotRef 198847XA80117
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A2025 in Adur, 23 September 1993
At the same spotRef 199347XA30433
Slight
Citroen Visa crash on the A2025 in Adur, 4 December 1990
At the same spotRef 199047XA00656
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A2025 in Adur, 26 June 2025
2 m awayRef 2025471608171
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Austin Montego
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Austin Montego
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Austin Montego)
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 199147XA10201 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Adur road accident statistics for 1991.