A26 crash in Wealden on 2 October 1983 at 13:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A26 in Wealden at 13:30 on Sunday 2 October 1983. The 19-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 65-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 1983
- Sunday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09127, longitude 0.20867, in the TN3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198347SA30632
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 26
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A26 in Wealden, 26 October 1979
10 m awayRef 197947RA90376
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A26 in Wealden, 29 April 1991
22 m awayRef 199147LA10185
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A26 in Wealden, 19 August 1988
50 m awayRef 198847HA80529
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A26 in Wealden, 17 June 1979
54 m awayRef 197947RA90197
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A26 in Wealden, 19 July 1998
92 m awayRef 199847H000707
Fatal
Toyota Yaris crash on the A26 in Wealden, 1 December 2020
115 m awayRef 2020471003175
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198347SA30632 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.