A23 crash in Mid Sussex on 24 December 2007 at 13:48 involving a Chevrolet Kalos
A Chevrolet Kalos crashed on the A23 in Mid Sussex at 13:48 on Monday 24 December 2007. The 55-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2007
- Monday, 13:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Chevrolet Kalos
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.05103, longitude -0.20187, 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
- 2007470710887
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 1990.
Slight
Skoda Estelle crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 23 January 1990
10 m awayRef 199047HA00040
Slight
Car crash on the A279 in Mid Sussex, 16 September 1986
10 m awayRef 198647HA60395
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Sussex, 10 October 1991
14 m awayRef 199147HA10483
Slight
Car crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 11 March 1986
14 m awayRef 198647HA60103
Slight
Opel Manta crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 24 November 1992
14 m awayRef 199247HA20509
Slight
Suzuki GSX 650 crash on the B2110 in Mid Sussex, 10 October 2009
20 m awayRef 2009470907494
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Chevrolet Kalos
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Chevrolet Kalos)
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 2007470710887 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.