Unclassified road crash in Worthing BN14 on 9 August 2017 at 18:09 involving a Peugeot 308
A Peugeot 308 and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worthing at 18:09 on Wednesday 9 August 2017. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Aug 2017
- Wednesday, 18:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 308 and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85227, longitude -0.398, in the BN14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Offington, Worthing, BN14 0BF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471704479
- Council area
- Worthing
- 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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 1991.
Slight
Volvo 345 crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 12 November 1991
9 m awayRef 199147XA10569
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Skoda Roomster crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 17 October 2025
10 m awayRef 2025471655932
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 22 January 2017
14 m awayRef 2017471700474
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 23 October 2014
15 m awayRef 2014471406216
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 12 January 2018
16 m awayRef 2018471800187
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 6 April 1989
17 m awayRef 198947XA90188
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 308
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 308)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 308)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 308)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 308)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017471704479 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 2017.