Unclassified road crash in Horsham RH12 on 10 April 2021 at 21:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on an unclassified road in Horsham at 21:00 on Saturday 10 April 2021. A 21-year-old female passenger 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
- 10 Apr 2021
- Saturday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06684, longitude -0.36357, in the RH12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Broadbridge Heath. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broadbridge Heath, Horsham, RH12 3NG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021471034376
- 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
- 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
- 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, 18 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 September 2017.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A264 in Horsham, 21 September 2017
18 m awayRef 2017471705352
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A264 in Horsham, 21 December 2007
43 m awayRef 2007470710815
Serious
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A264 in Horsham, 6 April 2015
54 m awayRef 2015471501888
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A264 in Horsham, 21 November 1994
58 m awayRef 199447NA40674
Serious
Nissan 200 crash on the A264 in Horsham, 14 August 1998
78 m awayRef 199847N000769
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A264 in Horsham, 26 March 2017
93 m awayRef 2017471701663
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2021471034376 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.