A259 crash in Arun on 5 December 1994 at 10:55 involving an Austin Maestro
An Austin Maestro and an Isuzu Trooper were involved in a crash on the A259 in Arun at 10:55 on Monday 5 December 1994. The 26-year-old male driver of the Austin Maestro and the 44-year-old female driver of the Isuzu Trooper were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 1994
- Monday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Austin Maestro and Isuzu Trooper
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81057, longitude -0.56117, in the BN17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199447YA40780
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A259 in Arun, 9 September 2007
10 m awayRef 2007470707500
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A259 in Arun, 11 January 2014
28 m awayRef 2014471400182
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the A259 in Arun, 13 December 2001
32 m awayRef 200147X145338
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A259 in Arun, 26 December 2000
71 m awayRef 200047X131577
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A259 in Arun, 1 June 2003
78 m awayRef 200347K163370
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A259 in Arun, 29 October 1992
100 m awayRef 199247YA20658
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Austin Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Isuzu Trooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,165 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Maestro)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Isuzu Trooper)
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 199447YA40780 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 1994.