Unclassified road crash in Adur BN43 on 25 December 2014 at 00:42 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo, a Volkswagen Passat taxi and a Vauxhall Zafira taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Adur at 00:42 on Thursday 25 December 2014. A 19-year-old female pedestrian hit by the Citroen Saxo and a 33-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Citroen Saxo were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2014
- Thursday, 00:42
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen Saxo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83425, longitude -0.27237, in the BN43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shoreham-by-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Mary's, Adur, BN43 5WX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471407601
- Council area
- Adur
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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, street lights lit
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 2014.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 18 July 2014
2 m awayRef 2014471404120
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Adur, 2 May 2002
5 m awayRef 200247K149901
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 10 February 1987
7 m awayRef 198747XA70073
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Adur, 19 December 2005
8 m awayRef 2005470600061
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Adur, 15 August 2010
8 m awayRef 2010471005361
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 1 June 2016
21 m awayRef 2016471603224
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Zafira
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 2014471407601 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 2014.