Unclassified road crash in Arun BN12 on 10 December 2016 at 16:27 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Arun at 16:27 on Saturday 10 December 2016. The 89-year-old female driver of the car and the 59-year-old male driver of the van were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 16:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80351, longitude -0.43773, in the BN12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471607462
- Council area
- Arun
- 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
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 2014.
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 16 March 2014
19 m awayRef 2014471401464
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Arun, 6 November 1991
43 m awayRef 199147XA10560
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Worthing, 12 December 2003
81 m awayRef 200347K169905
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 18 July 2002
134 m awayRef 200247K152646
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on a C road in Arun, 31 July 1991
143 m awayRef 199147XA10362
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 28 February 2008
147 m awayRef 2008470801649
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 89 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,343 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,283 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 89, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016471607462 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Arun road accident statistics for 2016.