A272 crash in Horsham on 19 May 2004 at 22:19 involving a Nissan
A Nissan and a car were involved in a crash on the A272 in Horsham at 22:19 on Wednesday 19 May 2004. The 27-year-old male driver of the Nissan was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 May 2004
- Wednesday, 22:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00455, longitude -0.42731, in the RH14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200447K175010
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 2009.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A272 in Horsham, 24 November 2009
10 m awayRef 2009470908837
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A272 in Horsham, 14 April 2000
22 m awayRef 200047N004739
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Horsham, 25 July 1982
32 m awayRef 198247YA20372
Serious
Honda NC750 crash on the A272 in Horsham, 16 July 2022
32 m awayRef 2022471199368
Slight
Cupra Formentor crash on the A272 in Horsham, 22 April 2023
48 m awayRef 2023471299739
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A272 in Horsham, 14 September 2024
59 m awayRef 2024471491627
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan)
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 200447K175010 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 2004.