B2117 crash in Mid Sussex on 6 October 1981 at 18:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the B2117 in Mid Sussex at 18:10 on Tuesday 6 October 1981. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 1981
- Tuesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92325, longitude -0.1869, in the BN6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198147NA10751
- Council area
- Mid Sussex
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2117
- Road type
- Single 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 85 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B2117 in Mid Sussex, 16 April 2012
85 m awayRef 2012471201977
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the B2117 in Mid Sussex, 15 June 1997
206 m awayRef 199747HA70406
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B2117 in Mid Sussex, 28 March 2001
228 m awayRef 200147N135186
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the B2117 in Mid Sussex, 25 November 1996
233 m awayRef 199647HA60759
Serious
Citroen BX crash on the B2117 in Mid Sussex, 7 December 1996
233 m awayRef 199647HA60800
Serious
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the B2117 in Mid Sussex, 10 September 2007
239 m awayRef 2007470707535
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198147NA10751 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Sussex road accident statistics for 1981.