C road crash in Wealden TN22 on 11 October 1980 at 08:15 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Wealden at 08:15 on Saturday 11 October 1980. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 1980
- Saturday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04038, longitude 0.07058, in the TN22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198047RA00352
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 92 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 August 2007.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Wealden, 6 August 2007
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Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B556 in Wealden, 29 May 2007
130 m awayRef 2007470704814
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 9 June 2015
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Serious
Suzuki GSXR crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 31 August 2025
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Wealden, 20 March 2004
250 m awayRef 200447K173236
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Wealden, 12 June 2013
262 m awayRef 2013471302971
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 198047RA00352 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 1980.