A24 crash in Worthing on 23 October 2014 at 07:15 involving a Skoda Octavia
A Skoda Octavia and a Peugeot Bipper van were involved in a crash on the A24 in Worthing at 07:15 on Thursday 23 October 2014. The 50-year-old male driver of the Skoda Octavia and the 45-year-old male driver of the Peugeot Bipper van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2014
- Thursday, 07:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Octavia and Peugeot Bipper
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85016, longitude -0.3988, in the BN14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Offington, Worthing, BN14 0BF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471406212
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 24
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 March 2025.
Serious
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Volvo crash on the A24 in Worthing, 19 July 2006
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Slight
Suzuki VL 125 crash on the A24 in Worthing, 19 November 2009
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Serious
Car crash on the A24 in Worthing, 26 October 1980
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Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A24 in Worthing, 21 March 2017
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Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on the A24 in Worthing, 4 September 1993
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Bipper
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot Bipper)
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 2014471406212 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 2014.