A2220 crash in Mid Sussex on 8 December 2015 at 08:00 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a car were involved in a crash on the A2220 in Mid Sussex at 08:00 on Tuesday 8 December 2015. The 39-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2015
- Tuesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13137, longitude -0.12995, in the RH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Copthorne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Copthorne & Worth, Mid Sussex, RH10 3PR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471507307
- Council area
- Mid Sussex
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2220
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Unclassified
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 2011.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A2220 in Mid Sussex, 6 September 2011
2 m awayRef 2011471105513
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on the A2220 in Mid Sussex, 4 April 1993
5 m awayRef 199347NA30149
Fatal
Van crash on the A264 in Mid Sussex, 19 November 1980
5 m awayRef 198047RA00407
Slight
Car crash on the A264 in Mid Sussex, 17 January 1982
5 m awayRef 198247RA20007
Slight
Bedford crash on the A2220 in Mid Sussex, 21 November 1994
5 m awayRef 199447HA40688
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the A2220 in Mid Sussex, 13 August 2008
5 m awayRef 2008470806252
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2015471507307 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.