A264 crash in Horsham on 22 February 2012 at 19:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A264 in Horsham at 19:30 on Wednesday 22 February 2012. The 53-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Feb 2012
- Wednesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0582, longitude -0.38454, in the RH13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Itchingfield, Slinfold & Warnham, Horsham, RH13 0QW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471201008
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 264
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 2015.
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A264 in Horsham, 22 February 2015
5 m awayRef 2015471501099
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A264 in Horsham, 19 May 1981
10 m awayRef 198147NA10354
Slight
Hyundai Tucson crash on the A264 in Horsham, 16 June 2012
10 m awayRef 2012471203076
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A264 in Horsham, 24 June 1991
10 m awayRef 199147NA10305
Slight
Car crash on the A264 in Horsham, 23 February 1989
10 m awayRef 198947NA90150
Slight
Car crash on the A264 in Horsham, 29 June 1988
10 m awayRef 198847NA80377
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 53, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2012471201008 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 2012.