A27 crash in Adur on 18 November 2017 at 14:45 involving a Honda Accord
A Honda Accord and a Honda CB600F motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A27 in Adur at 14:45 on Saturday 18 November 2017. The 25-year-old male rider of the Honda CB600F motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 2017
- Saturday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Accord and Honda CB600F
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84325, longitude -0.25039, in the BN43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shoreham-by-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Southlands, Adur, BN43 6TB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471706518
- Council area
- Adur
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 27
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 September 1990.
Serious
Hyundai Stellar crash on the A27 in Adur, 5 September 1990
8 m awayRef 199047XA00485
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A27 in Adur, 28 May 1995
21 m awayRef 199547XA50233
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A27 in Adur, 12 July 1994
21 m awayRef 199447XA40312
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A27 in Adur, 23 October 1998
23 m awayRef 199847X001436
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A27 in Adur, 23 November 2006
29 m awayRef 2006470610091
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A27 in Adur, 22 November 2006
37 m awayRef 2006470610036
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,850 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda CB600F
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CB600F)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017471706518 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Adur road accident statistics for 2017.