Unclassified road crash in Adur BN43 on 9 October 2009 at 10:00 involving a Nissan Almera
A Nissan Almera and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Adur at 10:00 on Friday 9 October 2009. The 54-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio and a 48-year-old male passenger in the Renault Clio were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2009
- Friday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Almera and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84185, longitude -0.25566, in the BN43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shoreham-by-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Southlands, Adur, BN43 6TB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009470907436
- Council area
- Adur
- 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
- Stop sign
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2025.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 2 December 2025
8 m awayRef 2025471677675
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 27 April 2015
9 m awayRef 2015471502361
Serious
Car crash on the A27 in Adur, 1 November 1985
10 m awayRef 198547MA50267
Slight
Renault Modus crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 21 February 2014
11 m awayRef 2014471400987
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A27 in Adur, 19 December 1988
14 m awayRef 198847XA80878
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Adur, 21 April 1979
14 m awayRef 197947XA90238
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
- 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 2009470907436 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 2009.