Serious unclassified road crash in Horsham RH12 on 1 July 2019 at 14:44 involving a van
A van crashed on an unclassified road in Horsham at 14:44 on Monday 1 July 2019. The 55-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jul 2019
- Monday, 14:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08668, longitude -0.46247, in the RH12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019470853061
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 281
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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 December 1996.
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A281 in Horsham, 13 December 1996
4 m awayRef 199647NA60874
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A281 in Horsham, 15 August 1993
4 m awayRef 199347NA30418
Slight
Zastava Yugo crash on the A281 in Horsham, 25 February 1995
4 m awayRef 199547NA50113
Slight
MG MGF crash on the A281 in Horsham, 21 December 1999
4 m awayRef 199947N004109
Slight
Porsche Cayenne crash on the A281 in Horsham, 5 December 2017
14 m awayRef 2017471706933
Slight
Car crash on the A281 in Horsham, 6 August 1985
14 m awayRef 198547NA50347
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 55, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2019470853061 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 2019.