A23 crash in Mid Sussex on 26 April 1990 at 08:50 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A23 in Mid Sussex at 08:50 on Thursday 26 April 1990. The 20-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 1990
- Thursday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07621, longitude -0.20334, in the RH11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199047HA00178
- Council area
- Mid Sussex
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 23
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 18 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199747HA70914
Serious
Car crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 11 November 1985
At the same spotRef 198547HA50571
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the B2114 in Mid Sussex, 30 March 2018
13 m awayRef 2018471801752
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B2114 in Mid Sussex, 2 April 2017
19 m awayRef 2017471702000
Serious
Car crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 16 January 1988
20 m awayRef 198847HA80038
Slight
Van crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 7 August 1988
20 m awayRef 198847HA80497
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,608 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 199047HA00178 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 1990.