A281 crash in Horsham on 12 January 2016 at 17:20 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 and a Hyundai i30 were involved in a crash on the A281 in Horsham at 17:20 on Tuesday 12 January 2016. A 38-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Peugeot 307 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
- 12 Jan 2016
- Tuesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 307 and Hyundai i30
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.05969, longitude -0.32041, 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
- 2016471600217
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 281
- 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
- Unclassified
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 2018.
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A281 in Horsham, 17 April 2018
7 m awayRef 2018471802060
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A281 in Horsham, 14 June 2011
15 m awayRef 2011471103689
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A281 in Horsham, 9 November 2023
19 m awayRef 2023471372760
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 27 October 1999
24 m awayRef 199947N003880
Serious
Van crash on the A281 in Horsham, 30 November 1984
24 m awayRef 198447NA40567
Slight
Skoda Felicia crash on the A281 in Horsham, 18 March 2002
26 m awayRef 200247N148571
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 307)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
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 2016471600217 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 2016.