Unclassified road crash in Worthing BN11 on 16 December 1997 at 12:30 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Worthing at 12:30 on Tuesday 16 December 1997. A 74-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 1997
- Tuesday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80991, longitude -0.38107, in the BN11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199747XA70804
- 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
- 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
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 2002.
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 74, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 199747XA70804 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.