B2104 crash in Wealden on 14 December 1982 at 17:50 involving a van
Two vans were involved in a crash on the B2104 in Wealden at 17:50 on Tuesday 14 December 1982. The 60-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 33-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 1982
- Tuesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82332, longitude 0.28503, in the BN24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198247SA20896
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2104
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 2005.
Slight
Honda crash on the B2104 in Wealden, 20 March 2005
At the same spotRef 2005470501904
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B2104 in Wealden, 2 September 2019
19 m awayRef 2019470873634
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the B2104 in Wealden, 9 September 2012
20 m awayRef 2012471204683
Serious
Zastava Yugo crash on the B2104 in Wealden, 20 July 1990
22 m awayRef 199047SA00362
Serious
Chrysler Voyager crash on the B2104 in Wealden, 6 December 2011
36 m awayRef 2011471107739
Slight
Van crash on the B2104 in Wealden, 28 July 1979
36 m awayRef 197947SA90381
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
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 198247SA20896 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 1982.