Unclassified road crash in Adur BN42 on 30 August 2021 at 19:30 involving an Audi Q2
An Audi Q2 and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Adur at 19:30 on Monday 30 August 2021. The 36-year-old female driver of the Audi Q2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 2021
- Monday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi Q2 and Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83748, longitude -0.23436, in the BN42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Portslade, Brighton and Hove, BN41 1SQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021471082591
- Council area
- Adur
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2004.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Adur, 8 December 2004
2 m awayRef 200447K181530
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Adur, 15 December 2000
2 m awayRef 200047X130913
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 20 March 2015
6 m awayRef 2015471501566
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on a C road in Adur, 18 February 2012
12 m awayRef 2012471200918
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in Adur, 1 October 1997
16 m awayRef 199747XA70590
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Adur, 4 January 1986
18 m awayRef 198647MA60002
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi Q2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi Q2)
- 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 2021471082591 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 2021.