Serious unclassified road crash in Crawley RH10 on 6 April 2017 at 16:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Crawley at 16:45 on Thursday 6 April 2017. The 23-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Apr 2017
- Thursday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13786, longitude -0.16614, in the RH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Langley Green & Tushmore, Crawley, RH10 9RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Crawley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471702038
- Council area
- Crawley
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 14 December 1979
3 m awayRef 197947NA91045
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 12 July 1993
3 m awayRef 199347NA30332
Slight
Suzuki RV 125 crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 16 March 2015
4 m awayRef 2015471501501
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 6 September 2011
4 m awayRef 2011471105561
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 24 January 1989
7 m awayRef 198947NA90037
Slight
MG 3 crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 5 December 2025
7 m awayRef 2025471678645
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017471702038 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Crawley road accident statistics for 2017.