Unclassified road crash in Adur BN42 on 11 December 2017 at 15:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Kia Sedona were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Adur at 15:45 on Monday 11 December 2017. The 50-year-old female driver of the Kia Sedona was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2017
- Monday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Kia Sedona
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83387, longitude -0.24423, in the BN42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Southwick Green, Adur, BN42 4DF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471707061
- Council area
- Adur
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 April 2021.
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 5 April 2021
5 m awayRef 2021471032825
Serious
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 1 November 2012
7 m awayRef 2012471205775
Slight
Mazda crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 8 May 2019
7 m awayRef 2019471902360
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Adur, 27 November 1989
7 m awayRef 198947XA90667
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 7 October 2004
16 m awayRef 200447K179522
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 9 September 2008
16 m awayRef 2008470806987
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Kia Sedona
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,902 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Sedona)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017471707061 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.