A2032 crash in Worthing on 5 August 2016 at 23:34 involving a Ford Focus
A car and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A2032 in Worthing at 23:34 on Friday 5 August 2016. The 18-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and a 16-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 2016
- Friday, 23:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83187, longitude -0.38064, in the BN14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broadwater, Worthing, BN14 9LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471604698
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2032
- 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 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 April 2017.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2016471604698 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.