A281 crash in Horsham on 17 July 2017 at 19:50 involving a Toyota Auris
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 2017
- Monday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Auris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.05882, longitude -0.31684, in the RH13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Horsham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Forest, Horsham, RH13 5JR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471704014
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 281
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 1999.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A281 in Horsham, 8 June 1999
9 m awayRef 199947N003099
Slight
Car crash on the A281 in Horsham, 24 December 1999
9 m awayRef 199947N004161
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A281 in Horsham, 19 July 2011
16 m awayRef 2011471104458
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A281 in Horsham, 7 February 2008
18 m awayRef 2008470801028
Slight
Car crash on the A281 in Horsham, 22 May 1981
18 m awayRef 198147NA10367
Slight
Car crash on the A281 in Horsham, 11 January 1981
20 m awayRef 198147NA10019
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,329 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Auris)
- 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 2017471704014 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.