Serious A259 crash in Arun on 5 August 2012 at 20:15 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Aug 2012
- Sunday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79099, longitude -0.65994, in the PO22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Felpham West, Arun, PO22 8PT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471203998
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 June 2001.
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A259 in Arun, 14 June 2001
At the same spotRef 200147Y137845
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Arun, 7 March 2006
10 m awayRef 2006470601985
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Arun, 21 April 2015
12 m awayRef 2015471502207
Serious
Audi A5 crash on the A259 in Arun, 7 May 2014
12 m awayRef 2014471402488
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Arun, 18 December 1989
14 m awayRef 198947YA90922
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Arun, 14 August 1981
22 m awayRef 198147YA10459
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 897 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 47, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2012471203998 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 2012.