Serious unclassified road crash in Arun BN18 on 17 December 2000 at 23:45 involving a Peugeot 309
A Peugeot 309 crashed on an unclassified road in Arun at 23:45 on Sunday 17 December 2000. The 26-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 21-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Dec 2000
- Sunday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 309
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86889, longitude -0.63852, in the BN18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047X131773
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 75 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 2014.
Slight
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75 m awayRef 2014471401647
Slight
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483 m awayRef 198747XA70418
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 6 October 1983
644 m awayRef 198347XA30646
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Volvo 940 crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 26 February 1997
680 m awayRef 199747XA70094
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Arun, 29 May 1983
835 m awayRef 198347XA30339
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 8 January 1980
876 m awayRef 198047YA00021
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200047X131773 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.