A2037 crash in Horsham on 20 November 2000 at 19:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A car and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A2037 in Horsham at 19:30 on Monday 20 November 2000. The 80-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and a 71-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 2000
- Monday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93231, longitude -0.27235, in the BN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Henfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047N129696
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2037
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 1998.
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A281 in Horsham, 19 May 1998
10 m awayRef 199847N000209
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A281 in Horsham, 28 April 2007
10 m awayRef 2007470703513
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A281 in Horsham, 11 September 1985
10 m awayRef 198547MA50225
Serious
Triumph Acclaim crash on the A281 in Horsham, 3 April 1994
14 m awayRef 199447XA40161
Slight
Fiat Coupe crash on the A281 in Horsham, 31 December 2004
14 m awayRef 200447K182384
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A281 in Horsham, 13 December 1983
14 m awayRef 198347MA30104
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200047N129696 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 2000.