Unclassified road crash in Crawley RH10 on 22 January 2013 at 09:18 involving a Toyota Prius
A Toyota Prius, a Citroen Xsara taxi and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Crawley at 09:18 on Tuesday 22 January 2013. The 30-year-old male driver of the Toyota Prius and the 37-year-old male driver of the Citroen Xsara taxi were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 2013
- Tuesday, 09:18
- Vehicles
- 3
- Toyota Prius and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12053, longitude -0.16258, 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 1RX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Crawley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471300381
- 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
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 1979.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Crawley, 14 December 1979
6 m awayRef 197947NA91041
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Crawley, 27 February 1992
6 m awayRef 199247NA20122
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on a C road in Crawley, 28 September 2000
11 m awayRef 200047N131747
Serious
Renault Laguna crash on a C road in Crawley, 13 April 2002
28 m awayRef 200247S149291
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Crawley, 26 April 1989
49 m awayRef 198947NA90245
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Crawley, 13 January 1983
49 m awayRef 198347NA30027
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Citroen Xsara
Taxi or private hire car
- 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Prius)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Xsara)
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 2013471300381 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 2013.