C road crash in Arun BN16 on 2 October 1996 at 08:15 involving a Citroen AX
A car and a Citroen AX were involved in a crash on a C road in Arun at 08:15 on Wednesday 2 October 1996. The 67-year-old female driver of the car and the 47-year-old female driver of the Citroen AX were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 1996
- Wednesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Citroen AX
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81668, longitude -0.48972, in the BN16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rustington.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199647YA60708
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 25 August 2010.
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Ford Focus crash on the B2140 in Arun, 13 July 2025
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Daihatsu Sirion crash on the B2140 in Arun, 25 July 2024
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Arun, 11 August 1996
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 4 July 1980
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 954 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, 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 199647YA60708 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 1996.