A23 crash in Mid Sussex on 7 October 2007 at 07:14 involving a Peugeot 406
A Peugeot 406 crashed on the A23 in Mid Sussex at 07:14 on Sunday 7 October 2007. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2007
- Sunday, 07:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 406
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.05175, longitude -0.20156, in the RH17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Handcross & Pease Pottage, Mid Sussex, RH17 6BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470708367
- Council area
- Mid Sussex
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 23
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2110
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 5 December 1980
10 m awayRef 198047NA00955
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 2 October 2004
10 m awayRef 200447K179307
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 9 May 1999
10 m awayRef 199947H002678
Serious
Car crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 30 September 1985
20 m awayRef 198547HA50470
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 22 April 2007
22 m awayRef 2007470703363
Slight
Car crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 27 April 1989
22 m awayRef 198947HA90249
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 406)
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 2007470708367 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 2007.