Serious unclassified road crash in Arun PO22 on 28 December 2007 at 13:03 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Arun at 13:03 on Friday 28 December 2007. A 66-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Dec 2007
- Friday, 13:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80017, longitude -0.676, in the PO22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bognor Regis. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bersted, Arun, PO22 9NE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470710941
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
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The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 2011.
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Slight
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Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 29 July 1998
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 66, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2007470710941 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.