C road crash in Arun BN18 on 25 November 2000 at 22:15 involving a Rover Metro
A Rover Metro and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Arun at 22:15 on Saturday 25 November 2000. The 82-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 2000
- Saturday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Metro and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83128, longitude -0.57671, in the BN18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047X129549
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 82, on vehicle 2 (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 200047X129549 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 2000.