Unclassified road crash in Arun BN16 on 10 December 2018 at 10:25 involving a Ford Focus
A bicycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Arun at 10:25 on Monday 10 December 2018. The 58-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 50 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 2018
- Monday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81997, longitude -0.50472, in the BN16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rustington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rustington West, Arun, BN16 3HD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471806857
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 259
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 35 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 January 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Arun, 19 January 2015
35 m awayRef 2015471500428
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Arun, 22 October 2018
54 m awayRef 2018471805838
Slight
Mercedes SLK Class crash on the A259 in Arun, 20 December 2011
56 m awayRef 2011471108125
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A259 in Arun, 15 October 2008
78 m awayRef 2008470807957
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A259 in Arun, 13 September 2002
84 m awayRef 200247K154421
Slight
Saab 9-5 crash on the A259 in Arun, 15 September 2007
111 m awayRef 2007470707697
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 58, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2018471806857 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Arun road accident statistics for 2018.