Unclassified road crash in Worthing BN14 on 8 June 2013 at 19:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worthing at 19:30 on Saturday 8 June 2013. The 18-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jun 2013
- Saturday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82291, longitude -0.36618, in the BN14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broadwater, Worthing, BN14 8LD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471302994
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 October 1982.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 22 October 1982
8 m awayRef 198247XA20822
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 2 April 1997
17 m awayRef 199747XA70192
Slight
Seddon/Atkinson crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 17 September 2003
36 m awayRef 200347K167055
Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 27 January 1997
64 m awayRef 199747XA70032
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 3 October 2003
74 m awayRef 200347K167574
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 16 March 1995
74 m awayRef 199547XA50118
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
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 2013471302994 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 2013.