Unclassified road crash in Wealden BN27 on 23 May 1979 at 13:45 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Wealden at 13:45 on Wednesday 23 May 1979. An 80-year-old female passenger 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
- 23 May 1979
- Wednesday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86362, longitude 0.26184, in the BN27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hailsham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197947SA90221
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
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Slight
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 197947SA90221 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.