B2135 crash in Horsham on 2 August 2025 at 11:54 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a Mini One were involved in a crash on the B2135 in Horsham at 11:54 on Saturday 2 August 2025. A 22-year-old female passenger in the Mini One, the 90-year-old male driver of the Mercedes A Class and an 81-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes A Class were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2025
- Saturday, 11:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and Mini One
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98003, longitude -0.34246, in the RH13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cowfold, Shermanbury & West Grinstead, Horsham, RH13 8LQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471624024
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2135
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 24
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 14 September 2023.
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A24 in Horsham, 14 September 2023
4 m awayRef 2023471356040
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the B2135 in Horsham, 11 February 2020
5 m awayRef 2020470929241
Serious
Car crash on the A24 in Horsham, 22 April 1987
6 m awayRef 198747NA70193
Slight
Car crash on the A24 in Horsham, 24 June 1989
6 m awayRef 198947NA90374
Slight
MAN/VW crash on the A24 in Horsham, 29 November 1996
6 m awayRef 199647NA60836
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A24 in Horsham, 16 April 1996
6 m awayRef 199647NA60213
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 90 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Mini One
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini One)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 90, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025471624024 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.