A281 crash in Horsham on 2 May 2018 at 21:05 involving a Subaru Forester
A Subaru Forester and a Fiat 500 were involved in a crash on the A281 in Horsham at 21:05 on Wednesday 2 May 2018. The 22-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2018
- Wednesday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Subaru Forester and Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92969, longitude -0.27243, in the BN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Henfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Henfield, Horsham, BN5 9RW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471802371
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 23 December 2014.
Slight
Chevrolet Spark crash on the A281 in Horsham, 23 December 2014
1 m awayRef 2014471407564
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A281 in Horsham, 27 May 1996
2 m awayRef 199647NA60313
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A281 in Horsham, 23 December 2000
8 m awayRef 200047N131404
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A281 in Horsham, 31 December 2009
8 m awayRef 2009470909872
Slight
Car crash on the A281 in Horsham, 31 October 1986
12 m awayRef 198647MA60272
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A281 in Horsham, 30 August 1991
18 m awayRef 199147XA10413
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Forester
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat 500)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018471802371 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 2018.