Unclassified road crash in Worthing BN11 on 26 January 2015 at 15:10 involving a Volvo XC60
A Volvo XC60 and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worthing at 15:10 on Monday 26 January 2015. A 6-year-old female pedestrian hit by the Volvo XC60 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 2015
- Monday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo XC60 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81309, longitude -0.40397, in the BN11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Goring, Worthing, BN12 4EX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471500554
- Council area
- Worthing
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 259
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 1986.
Slight
Van crash on the A259 in Worthing, 19 May 1986
2 m awayRef 198647XA60238
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Worthing, 25 July 2005
2 m awayRef 2005470506229
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Worthing, 19 January 1979
2 m awayRef 197947XA90027
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 12 December 1981
2 m awayRef 198147XA10895
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 30 May 2013
4 m awayRef 2013471302739
Serious
Kia Picanto crash on the A259 in Worthing, 16 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025471669478
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo XC60
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo XC60)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2015471500554 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 2015.