A265 crash in Wealden on 14 October 1992 at 18:20 involving a Fiat Panda
A Fiat Panda and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on the A265 in Wealden at 18:20 on Wednesday 14 October 1992. The 21-year-old female driver of the Fiat Panda was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Oct 1992
- Wednesday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Panda and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97781, longitude 0.28619, in the TN21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199247SA20424
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 265
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 1990.
Slight
Nissan Patrol crash on the A265 in Wealden, 3 October 1990
At the same spotRef 199047SA00484
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A265 in Wealden, 4 May 2006
At the same spotRef 2006470603632
Fatal
Car crash on the A265 in Wealden, 2 October 1981
At the same spotRef 198147SA10404
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A265 in Wealden, 6 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199347SA30786
Serious
Van crash on the A265 in Wealden, 9 April 1985
At the same spotRef 198547SA50112
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 4 November 2025
1 m awayRef 2025471663757
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Panda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Panda)
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 199247SA20424 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 1992.