A281 crash in Horsham on 26 April 1996 at 19:00 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A281 in Horsham at 19:00 on Friday 26 April 1996. The 47-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 1996
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 205 and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93174, longitude -0.27224, in the BN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Henfield.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199647NA60241
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 281
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- C
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 1990.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A281 in Horsham, 10 November 1990
At the same spotRef 199047XA00617
Slight
Car crash on the A281 in Horsham, 8 December 1987
10 m awayRef 198747XA70829
Slight
Lorry crash on the A281 in Horsham, 3 March 1980
10 m awayRef 198047XA00143
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A281 in Horsham, 10 August 2016
12 m awayRef 2016471604807
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A281 in Horsham, 15 October 2002
14 m awayRef 200247K155669
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A281 in Horsham, 25 November 2022
18 m awayRef 2022471246790
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 199647NA60241 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 1996.