Unclassified road crash in Horsham BN44 on 12 January 2015 at 14:42 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Horsham at 14:42 on Monday 12 January 2015. An 85-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2015
- Monday, 14:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 323
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88793, longitude -0.32813, in the BN44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Steyning. It is one of the crashes that make up the Steyning & Ashurst, Horsham, BN44 3YB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471500223
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 1994.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Horsham, 2 November 1994
4 m awayRef 199447XA40553
Slight
Car crash on the A283 in Horsham, 15 September 1981
7 m awayRef 198147XA10644
Slight
Car crash on the A283 in Horsham, 10 July 1984
7 m awayRef 198447MA40165
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on a C road in Horsham, 4 October 1996
7 m awayRef 199647NA60664
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 17 March 2000
7 m awayRef 200047N004573
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 11 December 2012
9 m awayRef 2012471206624
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 85, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 323)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2015471500223 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 2015.