Unclassified road crash in Horsham RH12 on 8 January 2017 at 20:30 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on an unclassified road in Horsham at 20:30 on Sunday 8 January 2017. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 2017
- Sunday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1263, longitude -0.2795, in the RH12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471700159
- 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
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 April 1979.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Horsham, 12 April 1979
13 m awayRef 197947NA90275
Serious
Ford Maverick crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 18 January 2013
15 m awayRef 2013471300320
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 4 September 2010
27 m awayRef 2010471005827
Slight
Audi Quattro crash on a C road in Horsham, 2 October 1995
28 m awayRef 199547NA50572
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 16 September 2024
31 m awayRef 2024471491952
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Horsham, 29 December 1979
34 m awayRef 197947NA91083
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- 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 2017471700159 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 2017.