Unclassified road crash in Worthing BN12 on 17 October 2012 at 19:20 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Worthing at 19:20 on Wednesday 17 October 2012. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Oct 2012
- Wednesday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81888, longitude -0.42348, in the BN12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Worthing, BN12 6LS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471205475
- Council area
- Worthing
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 8 December 1980.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 8 December 1980
At the same spotRef 198047XA00862
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Worthing, 21 January 1988
10 m awayRef 198847XA80055
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 23 December 1981
10 m awayRef 198147XA10929
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 20 May 1980
10 m awayRef 198047XA00318
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 31 May 1984
14 m awayRef 198447XA40257
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 27 March 1985
20 m awayRef 198547XA50119
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2012471205475 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worthing road accident statistics for 2012.