Unclassified road crash in Arun PO22 on 9 December 1997 at 09:35 involving a Talbot Horizon
A car and a Talbot Horizon were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Arun at 09:35 on Tuesday 9 December 1997. The 20-year-old female driver of the Talbot Horizon was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 1997
- Tuesday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Talbot Horizon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79778, longitude -0.68189, in the PO22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bognor Regis.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199747YA70662
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 2001.
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Serious
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Talbot Horizon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,294 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Talbot Horizon)
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 199747YA70662 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 1997.