B2140 crash in Arun on 6 April 2015 at 16:21 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 and a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B2140 in Arun at 16:21 on Monday 6 April 2015. The 16-year-old male rider of the Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 2015
- Monday, 16:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and Peugeot Speedfight
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81636, longitude -0.48976, in the BN16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rustington. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Preston, Arun, BN16 1AH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471501898
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2140
- 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
- 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 slight injury crash on 26 January 2001.
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the B2140 in Arun, 26 January 2001
5 m awayRef 200147X132678
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Arun, 23 March 1989
5 m awayRef 198947YA90209
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Arun, 21 April 1991
13 m awayRef 199147YA10245
Slight
Huatian HT 50 crash on the B2140 in Arun, 8 December 2009
15 m awayRef 2009470909221
Slight
Car crash on the B2140 in Arun, 22 April 1985
17 m awayRef 198547XA50165
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the B2140 in Arun, 7 June 2018
21 m awayRef 2018471803120
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Peugeot Speedfight)
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 2015471501898 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.