C road crash in Crawley RH11 on 24 October 2009 at 13:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A bus or coach and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on a C road in Crawley at 13:30 on Saturday 24 October 2009. The 25-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 2009
- Saturday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12222, longitude -0.19925, in the RH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northgate & West Green, Crawley, RH11 7ED area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Crawley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009470907889
- Council area
- Crawley
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 23
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 2008.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Crawley, 16 August 2008
At the same spotRef 2008470806329
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on a C road in Crawley, 26 July 1993
At the same spotRef 199347NA30362
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 12 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200147N136817
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Crawley, 21 September 1994
At the same spotRef 199447NA40538
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 22 January 2002
At the same spotRef 200247N146466
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Crawley, 15 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198747NA70117
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2009470907889 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Crawley road accident statistics for 2009.