A27 crash in Arun on 18 November 2021 at 17:30 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Hyundai Amica were involved in a crash on the A27 in Arun at 17:30 on Thursday 18 November 2021. The 48-year-old male driver of the Hyundai Amica was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 2021
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Hyundai Amica
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85653, longitude -0.64154, in the BN18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Arundel & Walberton, Arun, BN18 0SG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021471112295
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 27
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 27
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2009.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A27 in Arun, 2 March 2009
5 m awayRef 2009470901612
Slight
Porsche 944 crash on the A27 in Arun, 18 December 2000
5 m awayRef 200047X131787
Slight
Volvo crash on the A27 in Arun, 1 March 1990
5 m awayRef 199047YA00156
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Arun, 10 July 2006
13 m awayRef 2006470605693
Serious
Volvo crash on the A27 in Arun, 30 August 2009
15 m awayRef 2009470906339
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A27 in Arun, 16 November 2014
16 m awayRef 2014471406748
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Amica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,086 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai Amica)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2021471112295 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 2021.