B2233 crash in Arun on 22 December 2022 at 16:46 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on the B2233 in Arun at 16:46 on Thursday 22 December 2022. A 65-year-old male passenger in the Toyota Yaris was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2022
- Thursday, 16:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Cooper and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80615, longitude -0.58593, in the BN17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Yapton, Arun, BN17 5RR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022471259072
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2233
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 2018.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A259 in Arun, 14 November 2018
1 m awayRef 2018471806283
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A259 in Arun, 4 April 2023
2 m awayRef 2023471295376
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A259 in Arun, 3 February 2025
3 m awayRef 2025471549737
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A259 in Arun, 9 June 2019
4 m awayRef 2019470846203
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A259 in Arun, 2 December 2025
6 m awayRef 2025471677321
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A259 in Arun, 17 May 2001
7 m awayRef 200147X136731
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2022471259072 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 2022.