B2028 crash in Mid Sussex on 3 February 2014 at 06:32 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta, a Toyota Hilux and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the B2028 in Mid Sussex at 06:32 on Monday 3 February 2014. The 20-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 35-year-old male driver of the Toyota Hilux were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 2014
- Monday, 06:32
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12549, longitude -0.0889, in the RH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley Down. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crawley Down, Mid Sussex, RH10 4GB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471400633
- Council area
- Mid Sussex
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2028
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 1992.
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the B2028 in Mid Sussex, 15 May 1992
9 m awayRef 199247HA20195
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B2028 in Crawley, 16 January 2000
9 m awayRef 200047H003943
Slight
Lorry crash on the B2028 in Mid Sussex, 30 November 1979
9 m awayRef 197947RA90431
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Sussex, 19 January 1991
11 m awayRef 199147HA10036
Serious
Car crash on the B2028 in Mid Sussex, 17 August 1979
11 m awayRef 197947RA90284
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B2028 in Mid Sussex, 19 July 2002
13 m awayRef 200247K152628
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Hilux
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,982 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- 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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Hilux)
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 2014471400633 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 2014.