Unclassified road crash in Adur BN43 on 2 December 2011 at 13:00 involving a Scania bus
A car and a Scania bus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Adur at 13:00 on Friday 2 December 2011. A 75-year-old female passenger in the Scania bus and a 35-year-old female passenger in the Scania bus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2011
- Friday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Scania
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83396, longitude -0.27246, in the BN43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shoreham-by-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Mary's, Adur, BN43 5WX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471107632
- Council area
- Adur
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- C
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%
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Slight
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 75, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Scania)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 35, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Scania)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
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 2011471107632 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.