A259 crash in Arun on 12 December 2011 at 11:06 involving a Ford Fiesta
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2011
- Monday, 11:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Suzuki Liana
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7874, longitude -0.66172, in the PO21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bognor Regis. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hotham, Arun, PO21 1PA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471107960
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 259
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 1994.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Arun, 11 May 1994
3 m awayRef 199447YA40315
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Arun, 12 September 1979
8 m awayRef 197947YA90479
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A259 in Arun, 21 September 1990
8 m awayRef 199047YA00724
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Arun, 7 July 1980
18 m awayRef 198047YA00345
Serious
Taxi crash on the A259 in Arun, 19 March 2010
18 m awayRef 2010471001832
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Arun, 22 May 1999
20 m awayRef 199947Y002150
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Liana
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 82, 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 2011471107960 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Arun road accident statistics for 2011.