Unclassified road crash in Adur BN15 on 23 January 2015 at 23:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Citroen Saxo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Adur at 23:00 on Friday 23 January 2015. The 23-year-old male driver of the Citroen Saxo and a 24-year-old female passenger in the Citroen Saxo were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 2015
- Friday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83361, longitude -0.33817, in the BN15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lancing and Sompting. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cokeham, Adur, BN15 0DJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471500536
- 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
- Raining, no 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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 January 2017.
Serious
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 12 November 2017
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Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 2 November 2018
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Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 29 December 2022
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Slight
Hyundai X2 crash on a C road in Adur, 22 September 1999
4 m awayRef 199947X003479
Slight
Car crash on the B2222 in Adur, 2 September 1988
4 m awayRef 198847XA80594
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Saxo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2015471500536 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 2015.