A272 crash in Mid Sussex on 1 December 2015 at 16:00 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
A car and a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque were involved in a crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex at 16:00 on Tuesday 1 December 2015. The 38-year-old female driver of the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2015
- Tuesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98787, longitude -0.2011, in the RH17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bolney. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cuckfield, Bolney & Ansty, Mid Sussex, RH17 5RA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471507152
- Council area
- Mid Sussex
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 23
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 2023.
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 19 May 2023
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Serious
Car crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 11 May 1979
3 m awayRef 197947NA90360
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 20 September 2016
4 m awayRef 2016471605805
Serious
Smart Fortwo crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 27 February 2020
5 m awayRef 2020470934779
Slight
BMW Z4 crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 3 March 2023
6 m awayRef 2023471282856
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A23 in Mid Sussex, 16 October 2024
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Range Rover Evoque)
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 2015471507152 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.