A22 crash in Wealden on 7 December 1983 at 17:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A22 in Wealden at 17:05 on Wednesday 7 December 1983. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 1983
- Wednesday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83168, longitude 0.23885, in the BN26 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198347SA30814
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 22
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 30 August 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A22 in Wealden, 30 August 1992
At the same spotRef 199247SA20356
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A22 in Wealden, 25 March 1990
At the same spotRef 199047SA00133
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A22 in Wealden, 11 September 1982
At the same spotRef 198247SA20609
Serious
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 2 August 1986
At the same spotRef 198647UA60365
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A27 in Wealden, 29 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200247K154080
Slight
Talbot Samba crash on the A22 in Wealden, 7 March 1993
At the same spotRef 199347SA30121
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 198347SA30814 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.