Unclassified road crash in Arun BN18 on 3 January 2017 at 15:33 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Arun at 15:33 on Tuesday 3 January 2017. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jan 2017
- Tuesday, 15:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84637, longitude -0.62645, in the BN18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastergate.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471700063
- 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
- 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, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 1992.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Arun, 2 July 1992
45 m awayRef 199247YA20393
Fatal
Citroen Saxo crash on a C road in Arun, 18 March 2007
65 m awayRef 2007470702400
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Arun, 5 May 1995
75 m awayRef 199547YA50273
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on a C road in Arun, 1 February 1991
108 m awayRef 199147YA10073
Slight
Suzuki crash on a C road in Arun, 25 September 1992
111 m awayRef 199247YA20577
Serious
Skoda Favorit crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 3 March 1994
133 m awayRef 199447YA40140
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2017471700063 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 2017.