Serious C road crash in Worthing BN12 on 9 November 1993 at 15:30 involving a Leyland Cars Mini
A Leyland Cars Mini and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on a C road in Worthing at 15:30 on Tuesday 9 November 1993. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Nov 1993
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Leyland Cars Mini and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82052, longitude -0.43323, in the BN12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199347XA30512
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 2015.
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 24 May 2015
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Slight
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 16 October 1979
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Serious
Fiat 500 crash on the A259 in Worthing, 22 May 2018
55 m awayRef 2018471802772
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A259 in Worthing, 3 June 2017
56 m awayRef 2017471703057
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A259 in Worthing, 2 February 1999
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Leyland Cars Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland Cars Mini)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland Cars Mini)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland Cars Mini)
- 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 199347XA30512 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worthing road accident statistics for 1993.