Serious B2117 crash in Mid Sussex on 21 December 2000 at 18:00 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the B2117 in Mid Sussex at 18:00 on Thursday 21 December 2000. A 13-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 49-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Dec 2000
- Thursday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92206, longitude -0.18992, in the BN6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047N131360
- Council area
- Mid Sussex
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2117
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 June 2002.
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the B2117 in Mid Sussex, 20 June 2002
10 m awayRef 200247K151577
Serious
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the B2117 in Mid Sussex, 10 September 2007
10 m awayRef 2007470707535
Slight
Renault 9 crash on the B2117 in Mid Sussex, 26 February 1992
14 m awayRef 199247HA20084
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the B2117 in Mid Sussex, 25 November 1996
14 m awayRef 199647HA60759
Serious
Citroen BX crash on the B2117 in Mid Sussex, 7 December 1996
14 m awayRef 199647HA60800
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the B2117 in Mid Sussex, 13 December 1997
20 m awayRef 199747HA70889
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- 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 200047N131360 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 2000.