Serious unclassified road crash in Horsham RH12 on 16 December 2016 at 13:30 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Horsham at 13:30 on Friday 16 December 2016. The 30-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Dec 2016
- Friday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06784, longitude -0.33379, in the RH12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Horsham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Denne, Horsham, RH12 1AF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471607611
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 October 1983.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Horsham, 17 October 1983
2 m awayRef 198347NA30765
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Horsham, 12 January 1981
2 m awayRef 198147NA10023
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Horsham, 1 December 1987
8 m awayRef 198747NA70654
Slight
Hyundai Lantra crash on a C road in Horsham, 22 October 1997
11 m awayRef 199747NA70726
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in Horsham, 5 November 2006
11 m awayRef 2006470609452
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 25 October 1989
12 m awayRef 198947NA90636
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 30, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- 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 2016471607611 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.