B2115 crash in Mid Sussex on 24 July 2015 at 18:20 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class crashed on the B2115 in Mid Sussex at 18:20 on Friday 24 July 2015. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 2015
- Friday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.02009, longitude -0.18467, in the RH17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ardingly, Balcombe & Turners Hill, Mid Sussex, RH17 5SR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471504262
- 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
- 2115
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 July 2017.
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the B2115 in Mid Sussex, 26 July 2017
5 m awayRef 2017471704215
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B2115 in Mid Sussex, 25 February 2006
11 m awayRef 2006470601713
Serious
Car crash on the B2115 in Mid Sussex, 1 October 1981
32 m awayRef 198147NA10726
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B2115 in Mid Sussex, 31 May 2018
33 m awayRef 2018471802967
Slight
Car crash on the B2115 in Mid Sussex, 25 November 1989
51 m awayRef 198947HA90570
Serious
Lorry crash on the B2115 in Mid Sussex, 17 March 1988
52 m awayRef 198847HA80167
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
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 2015471504262 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 2015.