Unclassified road crash in Adur BN15 on 5 November 2013 at 23:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Adur at 23:40 on Tuesday 5 November 2013. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2013
- Tuesday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82475, longitude -0.31538, in the BN15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lancing and Sompting. It is one of the crashes that make up the Widewater, Adur, BN15 8AA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471305961
- Council area
- Adur
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 8 February 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 8 February 1979
1 m awayRef 197947XA90084
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 8 December 1987
58 m awayRef 198747XA70821
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 30 May 2013
97 m awayRef 2013471302715
Fatal
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 25 May 1989
108 m awayRef 198947XA90272
Serious
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 7 August 1991
130 m awayRef 199147XA10376
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 22 November 2017
139 m awayRef 2017471706598
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2013471305961 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 2013.