Unclassified road crash in Horsham RH12 on 24 December 2013 at 08:00 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Horsham at 08:00 on Tuesday 24 December 2013. The 32-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2013
- Tuesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10087, longitude -0.29775, in the RH12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471307000
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 49 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 1979.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Horsham, 29 September 1979
49 m awayRef 197947NA90782
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Horsham, 15 February 1980
72 m awayRef 198047NA00139
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 11 December 2014
151 m awayRef 2014471407321
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Horsham, 25 January 1997
279 m awayRef 199747NA70052
Slight
Morris Mini crash on a C road in Horsham, 3 December 1990
292 m awayRef 199047NA00699
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Horsham, 10 November 1980
312 m awayRef 198047NA00909
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
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 2013471307000 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.