A23 crash in Mid Sussex on 30 November 2007 at 19:49 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A23 in Mid Sussex at 19:49 on Friday 30 November 2007. A 19-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2007
- Friday, 19:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00095, longitude -0.1964, in the RH17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cuckfield, Bolney & Ansty, Mid Sussex, RH17 5RL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470710264
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2013.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 12 December 2013
28 m awayRef 2013471306765
Slight
MCC Smart crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 21 November 2007
30 m awayRef 2007470709779
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 29 July 2017
40 m awayRef 2017471704272
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 9 February 2007
41 m awayRef 2007470701263
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Sussex, 30 April 2007
50 m awayRef 2007470703596
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 24 February 2025
50 m awayRef 2025471557698
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- 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 2007470710264 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.