Unclassified road crash in Adur BN43 on 24 August 2012 at 00:09 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Adur at 00:09 on Friday 24 August 2012. A 17-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 206 and a 17-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 206 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Aug 2012
- Friday, 00:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83605, longitude -0.26454, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471204348
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2000.
Slight
Suzuki Supercarry crash on a C road in Adur, 15 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200047X130911
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Adur, 1 May 1988
10 m awayRef 198847XA80313
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 8 October 1984
10 m awayRef 198447MA40246
Slight
Honda CBF 125 crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 23 August 2025
12 m awayRef 2025471632406
Slight
Proton Proton crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 27 May 1999
20 m awayRef 199947X002871
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Adur, 3 April 1992
20 m awayRef 199247XA20173
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat 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 2012471204348 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 2012.