B2139 crash in Horsham on 26 December 2013 at 12:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the B2139 in Horsham at 12:00 on Thursday 26 December 2013. A 69-year-old female passenger in the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2013
- Thursday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91544, longitude -0.47052, in the RH20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Storrington & Washington, Horsham, RH20 4HJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471307098
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2139
- 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
- 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, 29 metres away, was a fatal crash on 4 May 1992.
Fatal
Mercedes 190 crash on the B2139 in Horsham, 4 May 1992
29 m awayRef 199247NA20231
Serious
Peugeot 307 crash on the B2139 in Horsham, 25 October 2016
87 m awayRef 2016471606413
Slight
Car crash on the B2139 in Horsham, 25 June 1980
170 m awayRef 198047XA00409
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B2139 in Horsham, 14 April 1983
179 m awayRef 198347XA30257
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B2139 in Horsham, 20 August 1995
185 m awayRef 199547NA50474
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A281 in Horsham, 30 March 2010
185 m awayRef 2010471002059
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2013471307098 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.