Unclassified road crash in Horsham RH13 on 28 December 2017 at 09:30 involving a Mazda 2
A Mazda 2 crashed on an unclassified road in Horsham at 09:30 on Thursday 28 December 2017. The 49-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2017
- Thursday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.05517, longitude -0.2812, in the RH13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471707360
- 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
- 50 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 43 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 1988.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Horsham, 9 January 1988
43 m awayRef 198847NA80013
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Horsham, 18 April 1983
52 m awayRef 198347NA30247
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 4 February 2024
62 m awayRef 2024471406243
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Horsham, 3 June 1995
81 m awayRef 199547NA50319
Fatal
Volvo V40 crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 2 July 2019
107 m awayRef 2019470853419
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on a C road in Horsham, 24 January 2005
121 m awayRef 2005470500966
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,349 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 2)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017471707360 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.