Serious unclassified road crash in Adur BN43 on 8 November 2018 at 13:15 involving a BMW Z4
A BMW Z4 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Adur at 13:15 on Thursday 8 November 2018. The 66-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Nov 2018
- Thursday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW Z4 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84016, longitude -0.27385, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471806157
- 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
- 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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 2020.
Slight
BMW X1 crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 1 August 2020
5 m awayRef 2020470969383
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Adur, 8 November 2004
6 m awayRef 200447K180476
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
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 13 October 2004
6 m awayRef 200447K179844
Slight
Van crash on the A27 in Adur, 11 August 1982
6 m awayRef 198247XA20606
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW Z4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 66, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018471806157 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.