C road crash in Arun BN18 on 23 December 2009 at 09:09 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Renault Trafic van were involved in a crash on a C road in Arun at 09:09 on Wednesday 23 December 2009. The 54-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra and the 59-year-old male driver of the Renault Trafic van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2009
- Wednesday, 09:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Renault Trafic
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84688, longitude -0.64016, in the BN18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastergate.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009470909699
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 114 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Arun, 10 May 1992
114 m awayRef 199247YA20262
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Arun, 28 December 2006
139 m awayRef 2006470611363
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Arun, 27 April 1984
161 m awayRef 198447XA40188
Slight
Renault Master crash on a C road in Arun, 27 October 1992
161 m awayRef 199247YA20654
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Arun, 13 June 1985
269 m awayRef 198547XA50260
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on a C road in Arun, 17 September 1995
269 m awayRef 199547YA50613
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,235 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,165 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Trafic)
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 2009470909699 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.