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Serious A23 crash in Crawley on 4 May 1994 at 15:15 involving a Nissan Sunny

A Nissan Sunny hit a pedestrian on the A23 in Crawley at 15:15 on Wednesday 4 May 1994. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
4 May 1994
Wednesday, 15:15
Vehicles
1
Nissan Sunny
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09656, longitude -0.19356, in the RH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199447NA40207
Council area
Crawley
Police force
Sussex
Highway authority
West Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
23
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 31 July 2003.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Nissan Sunny

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside onto central reservation
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    33 years
    Engine capacity
    1,488 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    8 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Sunny)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 199447NA40207 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Crawley road accident statistics for 1994.