Serious A27 crash in Adur on 26 March 2002 at 18:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A27 in Adur at 18:25 on Tuesday 26 March 2002. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 45-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Mar 2002
- Tuesday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.837, longitude -0.32941, in the BN15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lancing and Sompting. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cokeham, Adur, BN15 0DJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200247X148596
- Council area
- Adur
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 27
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A27 in Adur, 11 July 2018
9 m awayRef 2018471803851
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A27 in Adur, 10 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199847XA80076
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A27 in Adur, 6 August 1993
10 m awayRef 199347XA30361
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the A27 in Adur, 24 July 2002
10 m awayRef 200247K152977
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A27 in Adur, 2 May 1998
10 m awayRef 199847X000342
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Adur, 27 April 1982
14 m awayRef 198247XA20278
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200247X148596 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Adur road accident statistics for 2002.