A259 crash in Arun on 31 July 2014 at 15:48 involving a Ford Mondeo
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2014
- Thursday, 15:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Peugeot 107
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81822, longitude -0.48871, in the BN16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rustington. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Preston, Arun, BN16 1AH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471404405
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2140
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2005.
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on the A259 in Arun, 13 January 2005
3 m awayRef 2005470500190
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A259 in Arun, 4 December 2009
3 m awayRef 2009470909122
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A259 in Arun, 14 May 2004
3 m awayRef 200447K174757
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A259 in Arun, 21 March 2022
5 m awayRef 2022471156060
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Arun, 4 February 2019
6 m awayRef 2019471900679
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A259 in Arun, 18 July 2013
9 m awayRef 2013471303699
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 107
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2014471404405 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.