C road crash in Wealden TN20 on 22 April 1983 at 17:05 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Wealden at 17:05 on Friday 22 April 1983. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Apr 1983
- Friday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99706, longitude 0.26305, in the TN20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198347SA30208
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 April 1981.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 11 April 1981
22 m awayRef 198147RA10125
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Wealden, 18 December 2011
36 m awayRef 2011471108068
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Wealden, 11 October 2007
71 m awayRef 2007470708534
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 4 June 2015
83 m awayRef 2015471503115
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 23 November 1979
94 m awayRef 197947RA90433
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 9 February 2017
103 m awayRef 2017471700836
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- 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 198347SA30208 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 1983.