Serious unclassified road crash in Adur BN43 on 12 March 2011 at 11:35 involving a Mazda 121
A Mazda 121 and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Adur at 11:35 on Saturday 12 March 2011. The 54-year-old male driver of the Mazda 121 was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Mar 2011
- Saturday, 11:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 121 and Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83557, longitude -0.25509, in the BN43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shoreham-by-Sea.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471101704
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2014.
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 1 December 2014
32 m awayRef 2014471407072
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 10 November 1979
33 m awayRef 197947XA90823
Slight
Bedford crash on a C road in Adur, 5 April 1990
57 m awayRef 199047XA00186
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 27 August 2014
63 m awayRef 2014471404953
Slight
Rover Mini crash on a C road in Adur, 22 September 1992
67 m awayRef 199247XA20457
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Adur, 14 January 1986
67 m awayRef 198647MA60015
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 121
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 121)
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 2011471101704 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 2011.