Unclassified road crash in Worthing BN11 on 20 November 2015 at 21:55 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worthing at 21:55 on Friday 20 November 2015. The 36-year-old male driver of the Honda Civic was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 2015
- Friday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81415, longitude -0.38996, in the BN11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heene, Worthing, BN11 4QE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471506865
- Council area
- Worthing
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 November 2007.
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A259 in Worthing, 28 November 2007
13 m awayRef 2007470710011
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A259 in Worthing, 21 October 1995
34 m awayRef 199547XA50506
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Worthing, 3 September 1982
34 m awayRef 198247XA20664
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A259 in Worthing, 8 July 1994
53 m awayRef 199447XA40306
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A259 in Worthing, 22 July 1993
63 m awayRef 199347XA30357
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A259 in Worthing, 6 October 2012
63 m awayRef 2012471205247
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,493 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
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 2015471506865 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.