C road crash in Worthing BN12 on 15 December 2000 at 22:45 involving an Austin Montego
An Austin Montego crashed on a C road in Worthing at 22:45 on Friday 15 December 2000. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2000
- Friday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Montego
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81312, longitude -0.4231, in the BN12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047X130677
- Council area
- Worthing
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Worthing, 15 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198847XA80030
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Worthing, 13 October 1986
20 m awayRef 198647XA60497
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on the A259 in Worthing, 15 June 2006
22 m awayRef 2006470604949
Slight
Hyundai Kona crash on the A259 in Worthing, 25 April 2024
30 m awayRef 2024471435821
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A259 in Worthing, 19 October 2021
35 m awayRef 2021471099978
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A259 in Worthing, 7 September 1981
50 m awayRef 198147XA10627
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Montego
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Bus stop or bus shelter
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Montego)
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 200047X130677 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 2000.