A259 crash in Worthing on 31 December 2016 at 12:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf, a Vauxhall Combo van and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A259 in Worthing at 12:30 on Saturday 31 December 2016. The 64-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Golf and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81244, longitude -0.41213, in the BN12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Goring, Worthing, BN12 4EX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471700008
- 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
- 40 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 2020.
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 29 September 2020
1 m awayRef 2020470985317
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 1 April 2014
2 m awayRef 2014471401752
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 10 November 2005
5 m awayRef 2005470509512
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 8 June 1990
5 m awayRef 199047XA00306
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A259 in Worthing, 13 December 2016
5 m awayRef 2016471607546
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A259 in Worthing, 9 August 1996
10 m awayRef 199647XA60380
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Combo)
- 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 2016471700008 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.