C road crash in Wealden BN27 on 12 January 1993 at 18:10 involving a Honda Prelude
A Honda Prelude and a Volvo 340 were involved in a crash on a C road in Wealden at 18:10 on Tuesday 12 January 1993. The 51-year-old female driver of the Honda Prelude and the 56-year-old male driver of the Volvo 340 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 1993
- Tuesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Prelude and Volvo 340
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88742, longitude 0.25887, in the BN27 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199347SA30028
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 2020.
Slight
Sinnis RSX 125 crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 1 January 2020
28 m awayRef 2020470914683
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 4 August 1985
28 m awayRef 198547UA50254
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Wealden, 28 March 1996
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Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 15 November 1985
28 m awayRef 198547UA50455
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 10 April 2024
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Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 16 November 2017
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Prelude
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,602 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo 340
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,721 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Prelude)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo 340)
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 199347SA30028 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 1993.