Unclassified road crash in Horsham BN44 on 14 March 2015 at 13:49 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A car and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Horsham at 13:49 on Saturday 14 March 2015. The 37-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 2015
- Saturday, 13:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90972, longitude -0.37424, in the BN44 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Chiltington, Thakeham & Ashington, Horsham, BN44 3DE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471501469
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 283
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 January 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A283 in Horsham, 29 January 2015
2 m awayRef 2015471500654
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A283 in Horsham, 7 June 2011
3 m awayRef 2011471103498
Slight
Subaru Forester crash on the A283 in Horsham, 30 November 2018
4 m awayRef 2018471806613
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the A283 in Horsham, 19 September 2020
6 m awayRef 2020470982509
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A283 in Horsham, 16 May 2019
6 m awayRef 2019471902575
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A283 in Horsham, 29 February 1992
7 m awayRef 199247XA20102
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2015471501469 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.