A23 crash in Crawley on 12 October 2013 at 10:11 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
A car and a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque were involved in a crash on the A23 in Crawley at 10:11 on Saturday 12 October 2013. The 44-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2013
- Saturday, 10:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15918, longitude -0.16389, in the RH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hookwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pound Hill North & Forge Wood, Crawley, RH6 0LA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Crawley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471305391
- Council area
- Crawley
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 23
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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, 2 metres away, was a fatal crash on 26 April 2003.
Fatal
BMW Z3 crash on the A23 in Crawley, 26 April 2003
2 m awayRef 200347K162131
Slight
BMW X1 crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 22 May 2022
3 m awayRef 2022471180105
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A23 in Crawley, 8 June 2017
3 m awayRef 2017471703175
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A23 in Crawley, 12 May 2011
3 m awayRef 2011471102954
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A23 in Crawley, 18 February 2015
4 m awayRef 2015471501000
Serious
Ford S-Max crash on the A23 in Crawley, 13 December 2025
5 m awayRef 2025471682365
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Range Rover Evoque)
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 2013471305391 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.