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Serious A271 crash in Wealden on 5 July 1981 at 00:15 involving a car

A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A271 in Wealden at 00:15 on Sunday 5 July 1981. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
5 Jul 1981
Sunday, 00:15
Vehicles
2
Car and motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88957, longitude 0.3231, in the BN27 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Wealden

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198147SA10270
Council area
Wealden
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
271
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
C

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 1984.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver age
    21 years

  • Vehicle 2: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    18 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 18, 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 198147SA10270 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 1981.