Unclassified road crash in Horsham RH13 on 24 July 2025 at 11:59 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Porsche Macan were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Horsham at 11:59 on Thursday 24 July 2025. The 77-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 2025
- Thursday, 11:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Porsche Macan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0601, longitude -0.30209, in the RH13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Horsham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Forest, Horsham, RH13 5JR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471621075
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 2008.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on a C road in Horsham, 6 October 2008
6 m awayRef 2008470807674
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Horsham, 11 April 1988
25 m awayRef 198847NA80224
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Horsham, 2 July 1984
27 m awayRef 198447NA40266
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in Horsham, 28 June 1996
76 m awayRef 199647NA60395
Slight
Kawasaki KL600 crash on a C road in Horsham, 29 October 1990
85 m awayRef 199047NA00631
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Horsham, 6 January 1992
110 m awayRef 199247NA20027
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Porsche Macan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,894 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025471621075 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 2025.