A24 crash in Worthing on 4 August 2011 at 16:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and an Audi Cabriolet were involved in a crash on the A24 in Worthing at 16:45 on Thursday 4 August 2011. The 25-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was 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
- 4 Aug 2011
- Thursday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Audi Cabriolet
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82798, longitude -0.37415, in the BN14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broadwater, Worthing, BN14 9LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471104830
- 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
- 24
- 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
- C
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 1995.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A24 in Worthing, 23 August 1995
4 m awayRef 199547XA50392
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A285 in Worthing, 10 November 1997
4 m awayRef 199747XA70702
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the A24 in Worthing, 28 September 2011
5 m awayRef 2011471106058
Serious
Car crash on the A24 in Worthing, 21 June 1987
7 m awayRef 198747XA70362
Slight
Car crash on the A24 in Worthing, 28 November 1991
7 m awayRef 199147XA10485
Slight
Bus crash on the A24 in Worthing, 14 January 1986
11 m awayRef 198647XA60030
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Audi Cabriolet
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2011471104830 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.