Unclassified road crash in Horsham RH13 on 12 February 2021 at 22:30 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper crashed on an unclassified road in Horsham at 22:30 on Friday 12 February 2021. The 46-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 2021
- Friday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.05526, longitude -0.2793, 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
- 2021471021389
- 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
- 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
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 2005.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 21 October 2005
9 m awayRef 2005470508792
Fatal
Bicycle crash on a C road in Horsham, 1 January 2001
9 m awayRef 200147N131310
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 28 September 2004
18 m awayRef 200447K179319
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on a C road in Horsham, 24 January 2005
18 m awayRef 2005470500966
Fatal
Volvo V40 crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 2 July 2019
27 m awayRef 2019470853419
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Horsham, 23 May 1987
28 m awayRef 198747NA70256
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- 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 2021471021389 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 2021.