A24 crash in Worthing on 21 January 2009 at 09:06 involving a DAF Trucks FA 65CF lorry
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2009
- Wednesday, 09:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks FA 65CF and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82422, longitude -0.37346, in the BN14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broadwater, Worthing, BN14 9LL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009470900620
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 24
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 2022.
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on the A24 in Worthing, 12 September 2022
18 m awayRef 2022471219201
Serious
Peugeot 307 crash on the A24 in Worthing, 25 January 2018
20 m awayRef 2018471800436
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A24 in Worthing, 11 October 2024
22 m awayRef 2024471508007
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A24 in Worthing, 17 December 1983
22 m awayRef 198347XA30799
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A24 in Worthing, 7 November 2004
22 m awayRef 200447K180656
Serious
Car crash on the A24 in Worthing, 29 January 1980
22 m awayRef 198047XA00052
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks FA 65CF
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
- 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 2009470900620 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 2009.