Unclassified road crash in Worthing BN14 on 24 July 2015 at 19:00 involving a Mercedes A Class
A bicycle and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worthing at 19:00 on Friday 24 July 2015. The 19-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 2015
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82127, longitude -0.36445, in the BN14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Selden, Worthing, BN11 2DG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471504271
- 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
- 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
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 11 October 1999
11 m awayRef 199947X003593
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 7 May 1996
71 m awayRef 199647XA60226
Slight
Isuzu Trooper crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 13 March 2006
73 m awayRef 2006470602253
Serious
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 31 July 2003
74 m awayRef 200347K165601
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 16 November 2012
83 m awayRef 2012471206142
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 19 October 2017
87 m awayRef 2017471706597
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 19, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2015471504271 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.