Unclassified road crash in Arun PO21 on 26 December 1996 at 11:45 involving a Subaru Legacy
A Subaru Legacy crashed on an unclassified road in Arun at 11:45 on Thursday 26 December 1996. The 79-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 1996
- Thursday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Subaru Legacy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78308, longitude -0.69394, in the PO21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bognor Regis.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199647YA60940
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 108 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B2166 in Arun, 28 December 2000
108 m awayRef 200047Y131221
Slight
Car crash on the B2166 in Arun, 26 October 2023
113 m awayRef 2023471367914
Serious
Car crash on the B2166 in Arun, 27 February 1989
125 m awayRef 198947YA90150
Slight
Daewoo Nexia crash on the B2166 in Arun, 3 November 1997
126 m awayRef 199747YA70592
Slight
Volvo crash on the B2166 in Arun, 18 November 2005
140 m awayRef 2005470510143
Serious
Car crash on the B2166 in Arun, 7 October 1987
150 m awayRef 198747YA70524
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Legacy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Legacy)
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 199647YA60940 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.