Serious C road crash in Arun PO21 on 20 December 2007 at 08:50 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Arun at 08:50 on Thursday 20 December 2007. The 54-year-old male cyclist was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78003, longitude -0.70026, in the PO21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bognor Regis.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470710696
- 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
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2011.
Slight
Peugeot Vivacity crash on a C road in Arun, 20 September 2011
4 m awayRef 2011471105885
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 15 May 2008
10 m awayRef 2008470803784
Serious
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Arun, 30 December 1992
10 m awayRef 199247YA20850
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 1 September 2002
20 m awayRef 200247K154142
Slight
BMW X5 crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 24 April 2017
29 m awayRef 2017471702318
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on a C road in Arun, 10 April 1994
32 m awayRef 199447YA40241
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 54, 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 2007470710696 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 2007.