Serious unclassified road crash in Arun BN17 on 20 August 2014 at 16:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Arun at 16:00 on Wednesday 20 August 2014. The 16-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Aug 2014
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80692, longitude -0.52558, in the BN17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Littlehampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Beach, Arun, BN17 6PE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471404869
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 December 1991.
Serious
Honda Prelude crash on a C road in Arun, 16 December 1991
17 m awayRef 199147YA10858
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 10 February 2008
24 m awayRef 2008470801170
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 23 January 1999
25 m awayRef 199947X002242
Serious
Yamaha crash on a C road in Arun, 13 August 1995
36 m awayRef 199547YA50528
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 20 January 2007
40 m awayRef 2007470700564
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Arun, 1 February 2000
42 m awayRef 200047X004212
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 16, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2014471404869 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.