A295 crash in Wealden on 4 November 1980 at 17:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A295 in Wealden at 17:20 on Tuesday 4 November 1980. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 1980
- Tuesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85823, longitude 0.25178, 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
- 198047SA00515
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 295
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 2009.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A295 in Wealden, 1 October 2009
14 m awayRef 2009470907218
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 14 December 2001
14 m awayRef 200147S145941
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A295 in Wealden, 19 December 1994
22 m awayRef 199447SA40882
Fatal
Suzuki crash on the A295 in Wealden, 6 November 2004
32 m awayRef 200447K181817
Slight
Car crash on the A295 in Wealden, 28 September 1987
36 m awayRef 198747SA70410
Slight
Volvo V50 crash on the A295 in Wealden, 21 December 2016
38 m awayRef 2016471607731
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 198047SA00515 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.