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A23 crash in Crawley on 25 December 1979 at 22:55 involving a car

A car crashed on the A23 in Crawley at 22:55 on Tuesday 25 December 1979. The 25-year-old male driver and a 27-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
25 Dec 1979
Tuesday, 22:55
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11098, longitude -0.20714, in the RH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197947NA91082
Council area
Crawley
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
23
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

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, no street lighting
Weather
Other
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside onto central reservation
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    25 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 197947NA91082 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Crawley road accident statistics for 1979.