Unclassified road crash in Horsham RH14 on 5 December 2017 at 22:29 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on an unclassified road in Horsham at 22:29 on Tuesday 5 December 2017. An 18-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2017
- Tuesday, 22:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01793, longitude -0.41561, in the RH14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471707083
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 162 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 1995.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Horsham, 25 September 1995
162 m awayRef 199547NA50552
Slight
Toyota crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 6 July 2022
704 m awayRef 2022471195822
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Horsham, 23 October 1986
710 m awayRef 198647NA60533
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on a C road in Horsham, 27 November 1998
840 m awayRef 199847N001739
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Horsham, 25 December 1980
842 m awayRef 198047NA01045
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Horsham, 5 June 1995
842 m awayRef 199547NA50328
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017471707083 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.