C road crash in Horsham RH12 on 29 December 2011 at 18:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on a C road in Horsham at 18:30 on Thursday 29 December 2011. The 31-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08373, longitude -0.35342, in the RH12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471108290
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 1 December 2009
4 m awayRef 2009470909024
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Horsham, 3 June 2007
4 m awayRef 2007470704565
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 1 December 2010
10 m awayRef 2010471008527
Slight
Car crash on the B2199 in Horsham, 31 July 1983
13 m awayRef 198347NA30527
Fatal
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Horsham, 12 December 2006
13 m awayRef 2006470610836
Slight
Car crash on the B2199 in Horsham, 2 December 1987
46 m awayRef 198747NA70682
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2011471108290 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.