B2272 crash in Mid Sussex on 27 January 2021 at 19:07 involving a Nissan
A Nissan hit a pedestrian on the B2272 in Mid Sussex at 19:07 on Wednesday 27 January 2021. A 46-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jan 2021
- Wednesday, 19:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9995, longitude -0.11524, in the RH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haywards Heath. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cuckfield, Bolney & Ansty, Mid Sussex, RH16 4BS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021471024830
- Council area
- Mid Sussex
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 July 2011.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 23 July 2011
3 m awayRef 2011471104536
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 25 November 2014
9 m awayRef 2014471406930
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 2 May 2001
13 m awayRef 200147N136653
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 10 March 2012
13 m awayRef 2012471201750
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 2 March 2005
13 m awayRef 2005470501377
Slight
Bus crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 20 March 2009
17 m awayRef 2009470902079
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 46, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
- 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 2021471024830 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Sussex road accident statistics for 2021.