A259 crash in Adur on 20 November 2012 at 00:15 involving an Iveco Daily van
An Iveco Daily van and a Renault Scenic were involved in a crash on the A259 in Adur at 00:15 on Tuesday 20 November 2012. The 44-year-old female driver of the Renault Scenic was 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
- 20 Nov 2012
- Tuesday, 00:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Iveco Daily and Renault Scenic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83181, longitude -0.27606, 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
- 2012471206180
- Council area
- Adur
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- 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
- Unclassified
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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 9 November 1994.
Fatal
Citroen AX crash on the A259 in Adur, 9 November 1994
At the same spotRef 199447XA40560
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 24 October 2016
At the same spotRef 2016471606387
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 20 March 2024
4 m awayRef 2024471422888
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A259 in Adur, 28 August 2017
6 m awayRef 2017471704856
Slight
Smart City crash on the A259 in Adur, 17 June 2022
8 m awayRef 2022471188943
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Adur, 15 May 1981
10 m awayRef 198147XA10341
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Iveco Daily
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,286 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Scenic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Scenic)
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 2012471206180 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.