Serious A259 crash in Arun on 23 December 2019 at 12:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus, a motorcycle and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the A259 in Arun at 12:30 on Monday 23 December 2019. The 61-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 2019
- Monday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Focus and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80259, longitude -0.62585, in the PO22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Felpham East, Arun, PO22 6QR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019470912981
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2020.
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the A259 in Arun, 28 November 2020
18 m awayRef 2020471002341
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Arun, 7 March 1987
18 m awayRef 198747YA70097
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A259 in Arun, 27 November 2020
28 m awayRef 2020471002220
Slight
Lorry crash on the A259 in Arun, 21 March 1983
28 m awayRef 198347YA30159
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Arun, 19 September 1980
33 m awayRef 198047YA00526
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A259 in Arun, 1 March 1993
48 m awayRef 199347YA30120
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 592 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 29 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 61, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- 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 2019470912981 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 2019.