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A27 crash in Wealden on 19 February 1979 at 18:15 involving a car

A car crashed on the A27 in Wealden at 18:15 on Monday 19 February 1979. The 76-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
19 Feb 1979
Monday, 18:15
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84604, longitude 0.12518, in the BN8 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Wealden

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197947SA90069
Council area
Wealden
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
27
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry
Special conditions at the site
Road sign or marking defective or obscured
Carriageway hazards
Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 1988.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Bridge (side)
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    76 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 197947SA90069 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wealden road accident statistics for 1979.