Unclassified road crash in Worthing BN11 on 23 May 1997 at 12:30 involving a Ford Escort
A bicycle and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worthing at 12:30 on Friday 23 May 1997. The 22-year-old male cyclist 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
- 23 May 1997
- Friday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81678, longitude -0.38324, 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
- 199747XA70292
- Council area
- Worthing
- 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
- 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 serious injury crash on 4 November 1989.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 4 November 1989
At the same spotRef 198947XA90611
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14 m awayRef 200147X136668
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 30 December 1981
20 m awayRef 198147XA10945
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 29 January 1998
41 m awayRef 199847XA80056
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 22 July 1988
57 m awayRef 198847XA80492
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 22, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 199747XA70292 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.