Serious unclassified road crash in Horsham BN44 on 1 March 2007 at 11:59 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Honda Jazz were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Horsham at 11:59 on Thursday 1 March 2007. The 74-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Mar 2007
- Thursday, 11:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89507, longitude -0.32762, in the BN44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Steyning. It is one of the crashes that make up the Steyning & Ashurst, Horsham, BN44 3YB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470701907
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 2004.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 19 August 2004
22 m awayRef 200447K178801
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 25 September 1996
54 m awayRef 199647NA60618
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 27 April 1999
108 m awayRef 199947N003013
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 12 May 2023
151 m awayRef 2023471306754
Serious
Hyundai i30 crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 10 November 2025
159 m awayRef 2025471727955
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 24 January 2007
160 m awayRef 2007470700729
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,235 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
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 2007470701907 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 2007.