Unclassified road crash in Horsham RH13 on 1 October 2015 at 00:54 involving a Suzuki Alto
A Suzuki Alto crashed on an unclassified road in Horsham at 00:54 on Thursday 1 October 2015. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 2015
- Thursday, 00:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Alto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.05692, longitude -0.31406, in the RH13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Horsham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Forest, Horsham, RH13 5JR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471505710
- 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
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 281
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A281 in Horsham, 5 October 1989
4 m awayRef 198947NA90586
Serious
Car crash on the A281 in Horsham, 2 December 1982
4 m awayRef 198247NA20982
Slight
Car crash on the A281 in Horsham, 10 September 1988
4 m awayRef 198847NA80516
Slight
Peugeot 505 crash on a C road in Horsham, 22 July 1997
4 m awayRef 199747NA70463
Fatal
Suzuki crash on the A281 in Horsham, 20 February 1998
4 m awayRef 199847NA80104
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A281 in Horsham, 19 May 1994
4 m awayRef 199447NA40249
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Alto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,061 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Alto)
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 2015471505710 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.