B2272 crash in Mid Sussex on 19 March 2017 at 11:18 involving a Volvo XC90
A Volvo XC90 hit a pedestrian on the B2272 in Mid Sussex at 11:18 on Sunday 19 March 2017. A 35-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 2017
- Sunday, 11:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo XC90
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99921, longitude -0.10654, in the RH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haywards Heath. It is one of the crashes that make up the Haywards Heath Bentswood & Heath, Mid Sussex, RH16 3BB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471701538
- Council area
- Mid Sussex
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2272
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- A
- Second road number
- 272
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Sussex, 20 February 1986
2 m awayRef 198647HA60078
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 12 December 1996
2 m awayRef 199647HA60849
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 2 June 1982
2 m awayRef 198247NA20388
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 21 September 1986
2 m awayRef 198647HA60413
Slight
Volvo crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 23 March 1995
8 m awayRef 199547HA50189
Slight
Scania crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 22 April 2012
8 m awayRef 2012471202066
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo XC90
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo XC90)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2017471701538 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Sussex road accident statistics for 2017.