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Serious unclassified road crash in Wealden TN21 on 23 March 1991 at 18:40 involving an MZ motorcycle

An MZ motorcycle and a Volvo 245 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wealden at 18:40 on Saturday 23 March 1991. The 28-year-old male rider of the MZ motorcycle was seriously 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
Serious
Date
23 Mar 1991
Saturday, 18:40
Vehicles
2
MZ and Volvo 245
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98204, longitude 0.30464, in the TN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burwash Common.

Map of where the crash happened in Wealden

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199147SA10098
Council area
Wealden
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
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
A
Second road number
265

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 14 March 1989.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: MZ

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    28 years
    Engine capacity
    125 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    1 year

  • Vehicle 2: Volvo 245

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to turn right
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    64 years
    Engine capacity
    2,127 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    15 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 28, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (MZ)

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 199147SA10098 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 1991.