Serious C road crash in Mid Sussex RH15 on 18 February 1994 at 00:30 involving a Rover Range Rover
A Rover Range Rover hit a pedestrian on a C road in Mid Sussex at 00:30 on Friday 18 February 1994. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Feb 1994
- Friday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Range Rover
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95717, longitude -0.14172, in the RH15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burgess Hill.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199447HA40101
- Council area
- Mid Sussex
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Mid Sussex, 12 September 1982
10 m awayRef 198247NA20694
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mid Sussex, 22 November 1988
14 m awayRef 198847HA80742
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Mid Sussex, 16 November 2000
20 m awayRef 200047N129538
Serious
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Mid Sussex, 8 April 2022
24 m awayRef 2022471164794
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on a C road in Mid Sussex, 8 January 1999
32 m awayRef 199947H001835
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in Mid Sussex, 12 June 2025
32 m awayRef 2025471602433
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Range Rover
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,528 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover Range Rover)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 199447HA40101 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 1994.