Serious C road crash in Crawley RH10 on 26 April 2001 at 16:53 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van hit a pedestrian on a C road in Crawley at 16:53 on Thursday 26 April 2001. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Apr 2001
- Thursday, 16:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1248, longitude -0.16828, in the RH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Three Bridges, Crawley, RH10 1RX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200147N136186
- Council area
- Crawley
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Footbridge or subway
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 March 1991.
Serious
Reliant Rialto crash on a C road in Crawley, 30 March 1991
10 m awayRef 199147NA10181
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on a C road in Crawley, 15 February 1991
10 m awayRef 199147NA10096
Fatal
Bus crash on a C road in Crawley, 4 November 1992
10 m awayRef 199247NA20584
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Crawley, 30 April 1987
22 m awayRef 198747NA70207
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Crawley, 1 March 1987
28 m awayRef 198747NA70100
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on a C road in Crawley, 2 February 1993
30 m awayRef 199347NA30056
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
- 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 200147N136186 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 2001.