Unclassified road crash in Wealden BN27 on 2 April 1989 at 13:15 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wealden at 13:15 on Sunday 2 April 1989. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 1989
- Sunday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86046, longitude 0.25771, in the BN27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hailsham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198947SA90152
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 1982.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 26 February 1982
22 m awayRef 198247SA20110
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 25 January 1986
36 m awayRef 198647UA60042
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Wealden, 7 November 2012
42 m awayRef 2012471205886
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 14 August 2025
44 m awayRef 2025471629058
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Wealden, 24 July 2009
45 m awayRef 2009470905370
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Wealden, 18 June 1996
45 m awayRef 199647SA60406
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198947SA90152 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 1989.