Unclassified road crash in Crawley RH11 on 16 December 2017 at 12:00 involving a Ford Focus
A car and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Crawley at 12:00 on Saturday 16 December 2017. The 35-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11323, longitude -0.20832, in the RH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ifield, Crawley, RH11 0DB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Crawley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471707155
- 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
- Single carriageway
- 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
- 23
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 16 February 1994.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A23 in Crawley, 16 February 1994
1 m awayRef 199447NA40078
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 21 September 2006
1 m awayRef 2006470607879
Slight
Car crash on the A23 in Crawley, 21 November 1989
1 m awayRef 198947NA90699
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 25 August 2025
6 m awayRef 2025471634214
Slight
Car crash on the A23 in Crawley, 6 August 1986
9 m awayRef 198647NA60366
Slight
Honda Accord crash on a C road in Crawley, 2 June 1993
9 m awayRef 199347NA30262
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017471707155 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.