C road crash in Wealden BN24 on 4 August 1979 at 10:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Wealden at 10:00 on Saturday 4 August 1979. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Aug 1979
- Saturday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82051, longitude 0.31343, in the BN24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Westham.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197947SA90408
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 1991.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 16 September 1991
72 m awayRef 199147SA10373
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 28 September 2014
85 m awayRef 2014471405637
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 28 May 1996
95 m awayRef 199647SA60465
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 17 April 2019
149 m awayRef 2019471902008
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 18 September 2000
153 m awayRef 200047S126816
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 20 May 2015
176 m awayRef 2015471502764
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 197947SA90408 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.