A259 crash in Worthing on 21 January 2011 at 11:10 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2011
- Friday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81508, longitude -0.34273, in the BN11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471100472
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 1994.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A259 in Worthing, 24 December 1994
4 m awayRef 199447XA40666
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A259 in Worthing, 9 December 2005
12 m awayRef 2005470510907
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A259 in Worthing, 23 August 2001
14 m awayRef 200147X140753
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Worthing, 2 July 1986
21 m awayRef 198647XA60338
Serious
Audi A6 crash on the A259 in Worthing, 28 July 2008
30 m awayRef 2008470805769
Slight
Van crash on the A259 in Worthing, 3 December 1987
34 m awayRef 198747XA70803
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,195 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 51, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2011471100472 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 2011.