Unclassified road crash in Worthing BN14 on 13 April 2016 at 03:36 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on an unclassified road in Worthing at 03:36 on Wednesday 13 April 2016. The 39-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Apr 2016
- Wednesday, 03:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82378, longitude -0.38546, in the BN14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gaisford, Worthing, BN14 7NQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471602125
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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 22 December 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 22 December 1985
5 m awayRef 198547XA50659
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 20 December 1998
16 m awayRef 199847X001851
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 9 June 2000
21 m awayRef 200047X004823
Slight
Colt Lancer crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 10 October 1997
44 m awayRef 199747XA70610
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 23 April 1999
46 m awayRef 199947X002722
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 19 March 1992
46 m awayRef 199247XA20139
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2016471602125 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 2016.