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A24 crash in Horsham on 13 December 1984 at 12:25 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A24 in Horsham at 12:25 on Thursday 13 December 1984. A 74-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
13 Dec 1984
Thursday, 12:25
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0267, longitude -0.35242, in the RH13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwater.

Map of where the crash happened in Horsham

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198447NA40601
Council area
Horsham
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
24
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 2010.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    30 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 74, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 198447NA40601 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Horsham road accident statistics for 1984.