Serious A22 crash in Wealden on 16 April 1990 at 08:50 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle and a Peugeot 505 were involved in a crash on the A22 in Wealden at 08:50 on Monday 16 April 1990. The 21-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Apr 1990
- Monday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda and Peugeot 505
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10649, longitude 0.02382, in the RH18 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199047HA00162
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 14 October 2003.
Fatal
Audi 80 crash on the A22 in Wealden, 14 October 2003
At the same spotRef 200347K167753
Fatal
Kia Picanto crash on the A22 in Wealden, 21 December 2019
9 m awayRef 2019470912230
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A22 in Wealden, 17 May 2007
10 m awayRef 2007470704074
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 6 June 1986
10 m awayRef 198647HA60234
Serious
Van crash on the A22 in Wealden, 18 February 1989
20 m awayRef 198947HA90122
Serious
Fiat Brava crash on the A22 in Wealden, 13 December 2000
20 m awayRef 200047S131308
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 99 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 505
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,165 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 199047HA00162 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 1990.