A264 crash in Horsham on 21 December 2019 at 20:48 involving a Volkswagen Scirocco
A Volkswagen Scirocco crashed on the A264 in Horsham at 20:48 on Saturday 21 December 2019. The 21-year-old male driver and a 19-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2019
- Saturday, 20:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Scirocco
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08646, longitude -0.28199, in the RH12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019470912394
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 264
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 2019.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A264 in Horsham, 20 December 2019
10 m awayRef 2019470911898
Slight
Vauxhall Movano crash on the A264 in Horsham, 16 August 2017
21 m awayRef 2017471704647
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A264 in Horsham, 19 June 2010
25 m awayRef 2010471003986
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A264 in Horsham, 17 January 2010
30 m awayRef 2010471000350
Serious
Honda CB crash on the A264 in Horsham, 23 June 2023
64 m awayRef 2023471322129
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 9 March 2006
95 m awayRef 2006470602050
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Scirocco
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Scirocco)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Scirocco)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2019470912394 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.