Unclassified road crash in Adur BN43 on 26 December 2012 at 17:28 involving a Ford C-Max
A Ford C-Max crashed on an unclassified road in Adur at 17:28 on Wednesday 26 December 2012. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2012
- Wednesday, 17:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford C-Max
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83303, longitude -0.26735, 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
- 2012471206970
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 259
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 2016.
Slight
MG ZS crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 2 April 2016
6 m awayRef 2016471601941
Slight
Vauxhall Astramax crash on the A259 in Adur, 27 January 2000
10 m awayRef 200047X004195
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 29 September 2022
19 m awayRef 2022471224679
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A259 in Adur, 17 February 1994
20 m awayRef 199447XA40079
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Adur, 9 November 1984
20 m awayRef 198447MA40274
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 4 March 2007
20 m awayRef 2007470701982
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford C-Max)
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 2012471206970 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.