A259 crash in Worthing on 11 April 1995 at 08:40 involving a Renault Trafic van
A Renault Trafic van and a Citroen AX were involved in a crash on the A259 in Worthing at 08:40 on Tuesday 11 April 1995. The 49-year-old female driver of the Citroen AX was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Apr 1995
- Tuesday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Trafic and Citroen AX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81227, longitude -0.36282, in the BN11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199547XA50156
- Council area
- Worthing
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 1993.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A259 in Worthing, 24 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199347XA30582
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Worthing, 17 August 1979
At the same spotRef 197947XA90549
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Worthing, 16 September 1985
10 m awayRef 198547XA50454
Slight
Honda MTX125RW crash on the A259 in Worthing, 19 June 1990
10 m awayRef 199047XA00339
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Worthing, 15 March 1991
20 m awayRef 199147XA10135
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A259 in Worthing, 7 April 2025
23 m awayRef 2025471574669
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,721 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen AX)
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 199547XA50156 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 1995.