Unclassified road crash in Horsham BN5 on 14 September 2016 at 12:00 involving a Ford B-Max
A Ford B-Max and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Horsham at 12:00 on Wednesday 14 September 2016. The 81-year-old male driver of the Ford B-Max was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Sep 2016
- Wednesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford B-Max and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93293, longitude -0.27849, in the BN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Henfield.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471605555
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 64 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 9 April 1979
64 m awayRef 197947XA90222
Slight
Gilera Runner crash on a C road in Horsham, 6 September 2006
67 m awayRef 2006470607417
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 16 July 2005
67 m awayRef 2005470506164
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Horsham, 24 August 1995
67 m awayRef 199547NA50491
Slight
Ford Granada crash on a C road in Horsham, 31 October 1995
74 m awayRef 199547NA50646
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 7 May 2025
96 m awayRef 2025471586759
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford B-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford B-Max)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016471605555 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.