A22 crash in Wealden on 3 February 1984 at 19:10 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on the A22 in Wealden at 19:10 on Friday 3 February 1984. A 50-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 1984
- Friday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03445, longitude 0.0552, in the TN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nutley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198447SA40091
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 22
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 July 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 1 July 1979
10 m awayRef 197947RA90219
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A22 in Wealden, 23 July 1993
10 m awayRef 199347HA30445
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A22 in Wealden, 27 October 2021
13 m awayRef 2021471106699
Slight
Peugeot 807 crash on the A22 in Wealden, 23 March 2017
13 m awayRef 2017471701623
Serious
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 26 January 1985
20 m awayRef 198547UA50007
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 19 January 1982
20 m awayRef 198247SA20038
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198447SA40091 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 1984.