Unclassified road crash in Horsham RH13 on 14 August 2011 at 15:30 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Horsham at 15:30 on Sunday 14 August 2011. The 19-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2011
- Sunday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.05551, longitude -0.29688, in the RH13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Forest, Horsham, RH13 6LE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471105164
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 November 1996.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Horsham, 27 November 1996
40 m awayRef 199647NA60833
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 26 December 2017
56 m awayRef 2017471707325
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Horsham, 18 August 1979
130 m awayRef 197947NA90664
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Horsham, 6 November 1993
150 m awayRef 199347NA30592
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 5 June 2021
165 m awayRef 2021471052564
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Horsham, 12 January 1981
202 m awayRef 198147NA10021
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha)
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 2011471105164 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 2011.