A23 crash in Crawley on 18 August 2016 at 15:35 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a BMW 7 Series were involved in a crash on the A23 in Crawley at 15:35 on Thursday 18 August 2016. The 19-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2016
- Thursday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and BMW 7 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15915, longitude -0.16372, in the RH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hookwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pound Hill North & Forge Wood, Crawley, RH6 0LA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Crawley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471604974
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 2023.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 19 May 2023
7 m awayRef 2023471309308
Serious
Ford S-Max crash on the A23 in Crawley, 13 December 2025
9 m awayRef 2025471682365
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A23 in Crawley, 16 October 2018
9 m awayRef 2018471805713
Slight
BMW X1 crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 22 May 2022
9 m awayRef 2022471180105
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A23 in Crawley, 18 February 2015
10 m awayRef 2015471501000
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the A23 in Crawley, 12 October 2013
12 m awayRef 2013471305391
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 7 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016471604974 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.