Unclassified road crash in Arun BN16 on 31 January 2014 at 18:30 involving a Jeep Cherokee
A Jeep Cherokee and a Honda Accord were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Arun at 18:30 on Friday 31 January 2014. A 9-year-old male passenger in the Honda Accord was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2014
- Friday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jeep Cherokee and Honda Accord
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82909, longitude -0.48397, in the BN16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rustington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Angmering & Findon, Arun, BN16 4BP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471400616
- Council area
- Arun
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Raining with 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 2013.
Slight
Saab 9-5 crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 31 August 2013
4 m awayRef 2013471304590
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 3 April 2010
6 m awayRef 2010471002143
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A280 in Arun, 9 June 2002
6 m awayRef 200247K151812
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A280 in Arun, 19 November 1993
7 m awayRef 199347YA30710
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A280 in Arun, 9 September 2000
7 m awayRef 200047X126627
Serious
Car crash on the B2225 in Arun, 31 January 1983
7 m awayRef 198347XA30076
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jeep Cherokee
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,776 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Accord)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2014471400616 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Arun road accident statistics for 2014.