Serious unclassified road crash in Horsham RH20 on 1 May 2015 at 11:05 involving a Land Rover 90
A Land Rover 90 crashed on an unclassified road in Horsham at 11:05 on Friday 1 May 2015. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 May 2015
- Friday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover 90
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9328, longitude -0.44569, in the RH20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471502415
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 2014.
Slight
Ford KA crash on a C road in Horsham, 13 June 2014
2 m awayRef 2014471403309
Slight
Volvo 244 crash on a C road in Horsham, 15 January 1992
3 m awayRef 199247NA20037
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Horsham, 21 April 2006
3 m awayRef 2006470603269
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Horsham, 27 December 1987
3 m awayRef 198747NA70716
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Horsham, 21 December 1990
10 m awayRef 199047NA00728
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Horsham, 30 November 1979
10 m awayRef 197947XA90870
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover 90
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover 90)
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 2015471502415 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.