Unclassified road crash in Arun BN18 on 17 February 2015 at 16:00 involving a Mazda Demio
A Mazda Demio hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Arun at 16:00 on Tuesday 17 February 2015. A 6-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 17 Feb 2015
- Tuesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda Demio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85316, longitude -0.55234, in the BN18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Arundel. It is one of the crashes that make up the Arundel & Walberton, Arun, BN18 9JT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471500986
- Council area
- Arun
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 1994.
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Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 17 August 2020
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Honda crash on a C road in Arun, 8 December 1997
22 m awayRef 199747XA70799
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Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Arun, 14 August 1993
36 m awayRef 199347YA30490
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Arun, 21 December 2001
53 m awayRef 200147X145483
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda Demio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda Demio)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2015471500986 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 2015.