A259 crash in Worthing on 5 May 1997 at 15:30 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova and a Proton Proton were involved in a crash on the A259 in Worthing at 15:30 on Monday 5 May 1997. The 36-year-old female driver of the Proton Proton was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 May 1997
- Monday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Nova and Proton Proton
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81273, longitude -0.35741, 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
- 199747XA70240
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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 30 November 2001.
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Rover 200 Series crash on the A259 in Worthing, 30 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200147X144391
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Fiat Uno crash on the A259 in Worthing, 15 February 2004
At the same spotRef 200447K172019
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Toyota Corolla crash on the A259 in Worthing, 18 December 2025
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Yamaha WR 125 crash on the A259 in Worthing, 25 June 2014
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Volkswagen UP crash on the A259 in Worthing, 7 May 2018
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Ford Capri crash on the A259 in Worthing, 24 August 1991
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Proton Proton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Proton Proton)
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 199747XA70240 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 1997.