Unclassified road crash in Crawley RH11 on 6 June 2017 at 15:30 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a Hyundai Elantra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Crawley at 15:30 on Tuesday 6 June 2017. The 83-year-old male driver of the Hyundai Elantra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jun 2017
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and Hyundai Elantra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12281, longitude -0.20002, in the RH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northgate & West Green, Crawley, RH11 7ED area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Crawley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471703117
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 February 2015.
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Slight
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Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 14 August 2025
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Slight
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,222 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Elantra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai Elantra)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2017471703117 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.