Unclassified road crash in Horsham RH11 on 15 February 2013 at 17:51 involving a Ford van
A car and a Ford van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Horsham at 17:51 on Friday 15 February 2013. The 47-year-old male driver of the Ford van 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
- 15 Feb 2013
- Friday, 17:51
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13154, longitude -0.22736, in the RH11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471300865
- Council area
- Horsham
- 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
- 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, 84 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 December 2000.
Serious
Fiat Cinquecento crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 20 December 2000
84 m awayRef 200047N131315
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 20 July 1998
226 m awayRef 199847N000514
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 18 November 2008
260 m awayRef 2008470808884
Slight
Renault 11 crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 18 July 1996
302 m awayRef 199647NA60445
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 4 May 2009
395 m awayRef 2009470903130
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on a C road in Crawley, 6 June 2000
418 m awayRef 200047N004873
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Ford
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford)
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 2013471300865 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 2013.