Unclassified road crash in Mid Sussex BN6 on 17 April 2021 at 08:18 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on an unclassified road in Mid Sussex at 08:18 on Saturday 17 April 2021. The 50-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Apr 2021
- Saturday, 08:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93434, longitude -0.1795, in the BN6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hassocks and Hurstpierpoint. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hurstpierpoint, Mid Sussex, BN6 9UX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021471036404
- Council area
- Mid Sussex
- 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
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2012.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B2117 in Mid Sussex, 13 January 2012
4 m awayRef 2012471200229
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on a C road in Mid Sussex, 5 March 1996
4 m awayRef 199647HA60141
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Mid Sussex, 27 November 1981
4 m awayRef 198147NA10916
Slight
Vauxhall Movano crash on the B2117 in Mid Sussex, 16 December 2009
27 m awayRef 2009470909463
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Sussex, 2 July 2021
41 m awayRef 2021471064274
Slight
Audi A6 crash on a C road in Mid Sussex, 18 October 2011
52 m awayRef 2011471106645
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2021471036404 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.