Serious A259 crash in Worthing on 9 September 2016 at 18:24 involving a Jaguar XF Series
A Jaguar XF Series, another vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on the A259 in Worthing at 18:24 on Friday 9 September 2016. The 54-year-old female driver of the other vehicle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Sep 2016
- Friday, 18:24
- Vehicles
- 3
- Jaguar XF Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.816, longitude -0.43053, in the BN12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Worthing, BN12 6LS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471605466
- 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
- 259
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Worthing, 14 December 1981
1 m awayRef 198147XA10902
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A259 in Worthing, 9 March 1995
1 m awayRef 199547XA50112
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the A259 in Worthing, 23 April 2013
1 m awayRef 2013471302043
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A259 in Worthing, 19 February 2019
4 m awayRef 2019471900989
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A259 in Worthing, 10 May 2016
6 m awayRef 2016471602784
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A259 in Worthing, 23 September 2010
9 m awayRef 2010471006315
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar XF Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,720 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 965 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 54, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016471605466 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.