A270 crash in Adur on 14 June 2018 at 21:20 involving a Peugeot 207
A motorcycle and a Peugeot 207 were involved in a crash on the A270 in Adur at 21:20 on Thursday 14 June 2018. The 59-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and a 25-year-old male passenger in the Peugeot 207 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jun 2018
- Thursday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Peugeot 207
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84227, longitude -0.24983, in the BN43 postcode district. 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
- 2018471803264
- 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
- 270
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 27
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 2022.
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A27 in Adur, 2 January 2022
4 m awayRef 2022471128286
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A270 in Adur, 6 July 2011
5 m awayRef 2011471104142
Serious
Fiat 127 crash on the A27 in Adur, 21 July 1990
9 m awayRef 199047XA00393
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A27 in Adur, 14 May 1993
9 m awayRef 199347XA30224
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A270 in Adur, 13 December 2008
9 m awayRef 2008470809670
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A27 in Adur, 22 May 1990
9 m awayRef 199047XA00276
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,301 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 59, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 207)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2018471803264 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.