Serious A24 crash in Arun on 8 August 1995 at 18:00 involving a Peugeot 205
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Aug 1995
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87777, longitude -0.41056, in the BN14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199547XA50374
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 24
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A24 in Arun, 9 January 2011
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Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A24 in Arun, 30 August 1991
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Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on the A24 in Arun, 30 October 2007
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Serious
Suzuki crash on the A24 in Arun, 13 July 1997
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Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A24 in Arun, 11 March 2020
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Slight
Yamaha FZ crash on the A24 in Arun, 1 April 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
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 199547XA50374 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 1995.