C road crash in Wealden BN24 on 23 November 1995 at 17:10 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on a C road in Wealden at 17:10 on Thursday 23 November 1995. The 58-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Nov 1995
- Thursday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8241, longitude 0.34101, in the BN24 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199547SA50815
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 199547SA50815 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 1995.