A29 crash in Horsham on 14 October 2013 at 09:45 involving a Mercedes lorry
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Oct 2013
- Monday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95202, longitude -0.51702, in the RH20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471305503
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 29
- 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
- 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, 91 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A29 in Horsham, 12 November 1989
91 m awayRef 198947NA90704
Serious
Car crash on the A29 in Horsham, 9 December 1979
153 m awayRef 197947YA90649
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A29 in Horsham, 17 July 2008
162 m awayRef 2008470805728
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B2116 in Horsham, 6 March 2012
165 m awayRef 2012471201260
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A29 in Horsham, 2 May 1988
249 m awayRef 198847NA80276
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A29 in Horsham, 12 June 2004
264 m awayRef 200447K176034
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: BMW X3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW X3)
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 2013471305503 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.