Unclassified road crash in Worthing BN11 on 16 December 2019 at 17:52 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper and an Audi A6 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worthing at 17:52 on Monday 16 December 2019. A 29-year-old female passenger in the Audi A6 and the 29-year-old male driver of the Audi A6 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2019
- Monday, 17:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Cooper and Audi A6
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81635, longitude -0.39776, in the BN11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heene, Worthing, BN11 4QE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019470910246
- Council area
- Worthing
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- 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 5 August 1987.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Worthing, 5 August 1987
3 m awayRef 198747XA70506
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Worthing, 5 February 1988
3 m awayRef 198847XA80098
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Worthing, 24 September 1979
3 m awayRef 197947XA90678
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 28 November 1988
3 m awayRef 198847XA80694
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Worthing, 11 December 2006
3 m awayRef 2006470610892
Serious
Lexmoto XTR 125 crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 25 April 2015
5 m awayRef 2015471502297
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A6)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A6)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019470910246 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worthing road accident statistics for 2019.