Unclassified road crash in Horsham RH12 on 16 February 2017 at 22:46 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on an unclassified road in Horsham at 22:46 on Thursday 16 February 2017. A 17-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 2017
- Thursday, 22:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10269, longitude -0.44031, in the RH12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rudgwick.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471700960
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2128
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 June 2022.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B2128 in Horsham, 29 June 2022
5 m awayRef 2022471193319
Serious
Car crash on the B2128 in Waverley, 19 April 1987
7 m awayRef 198745WO00110
Slight
Bedford crash on the B2128 in Horsham, 29 December 1996
14 m awayRef 199647NA60907
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2128 in Waverley, 22 December 2016
14 m awayRef 2016450143408
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B2128 in Waverley, 13 September 2020
15 m awayRef 2020450980350
Slight
Car crash on the B2128 in Waverley, 18 March 1983
27 m awayRef 198345FG00076
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017471700960 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.