Serious unclassified road crash in Adur BN42 on 28 November 2011 at 15:16 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Adur at 15:16 on Monday 28 November 2011. The 53-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Nov 2011
- Monday, 15:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83397, longitude -0.2445, in the BN42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Southwick Green, Adur, BN42 4DF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471107522
- 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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 January 2017.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 4 January 2017
2 m awayRef 2017471700050
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the B6834 in Adur, 10 July 2007
4 m awayRef 2007470705701
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Adur, 3 March 1982
4 m awayRef 198247XA20138
Slight
Hyundai i30 crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 26 May 2025
6 m awayRef 2025471594699
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 9 April 2017
7 m awayRef 2017471702012
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Adur, 23 January 1984
9 m awayRef 198447MA40013
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 53, 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 2011471107522 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.