Unclassified road crash in Arun BN12 on 8 December 2009 at 17:35 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra crashed on an unclassified road in Arun at 17:35 on Tuesday 8 December 2009. The 89-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2009
- Tuesday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8088, longitude -0.44298, in the BN12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rustington.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009470909231
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 2006.
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Mazda MX-5 crash on a C road in Arun, 11 December 2006
22 m awayRef 2006470610823
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Bicycle crash on a C road in Arun, 18 July 1982
50 m awayRef 198247XA20525
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 5 August 1979
51 m awayRef 197947XA90522
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Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Arun, 28 January 1994
125 m awayRef 199447XA40035
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Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 5 August 2005
158 m awayRef 2005470506389
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on a C road in Arun, 11 September 1994
162 m awayRef 199447XA40419
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 89 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,348 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 89, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
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 2009470909231 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 2009.