A2300 crash in Mid Sussex on 15 February 2013 at 11:24 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta, a Ford Transit Connect van and a Peugeot 307 were involved in a crash on the A2300 in Mid Sussex at 11:24 on Friday 15 February 2013. The 69-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta, the 48-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Connect van and the 60-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 307 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2013
- Friday, 11:24
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96989, longitude -0.17343, in the BN6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Downland Villages, Mid Sussex, BN6 9LQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471300899
- Council area
- Mid Sussex
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2300
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A2300 in Mid Sussex, 13 March 2013
10 m awayRef 2013471301397
Slight
Audi TT crash on the A2300 in Mid Sussex, 4 July 2017
13 m awayRef 2017471703779
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A2300 in Mid Sussex, 14 April 2016
15 m awayRef 2016471602317
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A2300 in Mid Sussex, 3 March 2022
25 m awayRef 2022471149967
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A2300 in Mid Sussex, 15 June 2017
26 m awayRef 2017471703400
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A2300 in Mid Sussex, 24 September 2020
27 m awayRef 2020470984035
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit Connect)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Peugeot 307)
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 2013471300899 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Sussex road accident statistics for 2013.