Serious unclassified road crash in Adur BN15 on 20 December 2015 at 00:10 involving a Mercedes CLK Class
A car and a Mercedes CLK Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Adur at 00:10 on Sunday 20 December 2015. A 66-year-old male pedestrian hit by the car was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Dec 2015
- Sunday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes CLK Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82913, longitude -0.31949, in the BN15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lancing and Sompting. It is one of the crashes that make up the Widewater, Adur, BN15 8AA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471507550
- Council area
- Adur
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 2025
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2014.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2025 in Adur, 7 June 2014
3 m awayRef 2014471403192
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A2025 in Adur, 8 August 1983
4 m awayRef 198347MA30001
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A2025 in Adur, 27 October 1991
4 m awayRef 199147XA10537
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A2025 in Adur, 8 June 1996
4 m awayRef 199647XA60281
Slight
Volvo 345 crash on the A2025 in Adur, 22 November 1990
4 m awayRef 199047XA00644
Serious
Piaggio Zip crash on the A2025 in Adur, 20 March 2008
4 m awayRef 2008470802271
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes CLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,266 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 66, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2015471507550 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Adur road accident statistics for 2015.