A23 crash in Crawley on 4 May 2016 at 10:00 involving a Ford Focus
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2016
- Wednesday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12537, longitude -0.18807, in the RH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northgate & West Green, Crawley, RH11 7ED area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471602597
- Council area
- Crawley
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 23
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 2011
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 2017.
Slight
Mini One crash on the A23 in Crawley, 5 July 2017
2 m awayRef 2017471703902
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the A23 in Crawley, 4 September 2024
2 m awayRef 2024471487133
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A23 in Crawley, 23 November 2018
2 m awayRef 2018471806469
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A23 in Crawley, 25 May 2024
3 m awayRef 2024471448334
Serious
Car crash on the A23 in Crawley, 31 January 1987
4 m awayRef 198747NA70025
Slight
Car crash on the A23 in Crawley, 19 January 1988
4 m awayRef 198847NA80035
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Corolla)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2016471602597 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Crawley road accident statistics for 2016.