Unclassified road crash in Arun PO21 on 27 May 2017 at 11:06 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Arun at 11:06 on Saturday 27 May 2017. The 77-year-old female driver of the Toyota Yaris and a 78-year-old male passenger in the Toyota Yaris were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 May 2017
- Saturday, 11:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C3 and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78351, longitude -0.6701, in the PO21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bognor Regis. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hotham, Arun, PO21 1BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471702934
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Arun, 31 October 1997
2 m awayRef 199747YA70569
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Arun, 14 May 1993
2 m awayRef 199347YA30269
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 23 November 2004
2 m awayRef 200447K181065
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on a C road in Arun, 16 April 1996
2 m awayRef 199647YA60260
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on a C road in Arun, 6 June 2007
8 m awayRef 2007470704692
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 20 October 2002
8 m awayRef 200247K156057
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2017471702934 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.