Unclassified road crash in Crawley RH10 on 7 December 2011 at 17:50 involving a Mazda 626
A Mazda 626, a Nissan Almera and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Crawley at 17:50 on Wednesday 7 December 2011. A 6-year-old male passenger in the Mazda 626 and a 29-year-old female passenger in the Mazda 626 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mazda 626 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10709, longitude -0.18021, in the RH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Three Bridges, Crawley, RH10 1SY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Crawley
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471107771
- Council area
- Crawley
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 2017.
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 16 August 2017
1 m awayRef 2017471704616
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 14 March 2001
4 m awayRef 200147N134780
Slight
Leyland Roadrunner crash on a C road in Crawley, 8 November 1991
6 m awayRef 199147NA10633
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Crawley, 6 March 1986
6 m awayRef 198647NA60105
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Crawley, 8 November 1996
6 m awayRef 199647NA60769
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Crawley, 12 July 1989
6 m awayRef 198947NA90408
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 626
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 626)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 626)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2011471107771 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 2011.