A23 crash in Mid Sussex on 15 October 1993 at 20:25 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the A23 in Mid Sussex at 20:25 on Friday 15 October 1993. The 38-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 1993
- Friday, 20:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00308, longitude -0.19676, in the RH17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199347HA30618
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 17 December 2018
15 m awayRef 2018471807009
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 16 December 2000
22 m awayRef 200047N130982
Slight
Scania crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 22 March 2007
22 m awayRef 2007470702519
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 21 April 2001
28 m awayRef 200147N136060
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 6 July 2025
37 m awayRef 2025471612356
Slight
Car crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 25 February 1979
40 m awayRef 197947NA90142
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 199347HA30618 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 1993.