Unclassified road crash in Adur BN43 on 21 March 2018 at 18:05 involving a Ford Ecosport
A Ford Ecosport and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Adur at 18:05 on Wednesday 21 March 2018. The 59-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2018
- Wednesday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Ecosport and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84014, longitude -0.27398, 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 St Mary's, Adur, BN43 5WX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471801573
- Council area
- Adur
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 March 2014.
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 20 March 2014
3 m awayRef 2014471401529
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 2 September 2009
4 m awayRef 2009470906407
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Adur, 16 August 2004
4 m awayRef 200447K177876
Slight
Van crash on the A27 in Adur, 20 October 1981
4 m awayRef 198147XA10754
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A270 in Adur, 26 October 2002
6 m awayRef 200247K156178
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Adur, 18 August 1987
6 m awayRef 198747XA70537
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Ecosport
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018471801573 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 2018.