C road crash in Wealden BN20 on 15 May 1996 at 15:15 involving a Honda PA50VC motorcycle
A Honda PA50VC motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Wealden at 15:15 on Wednesday 15 May 1996. The 85-year-old male rider of the Honda PA50VC motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 1996
- Wednesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda PA50VC and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80887, longitude 0.23734, in the BN20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lower Willingdon.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199647SA60297
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 1982.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 5 October 1982
32 m awayRef 198247SA20692
Slight
Honda CG125 crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 27 August 2004
72 m awayRef 200447K178139
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 28 November 2019
88 m awayRef 2019470903546
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Wealden, 16 July 1995
136 m awayRef 199547SA50472
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 14 July 2006
136 m awayRef 2006470605766
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Wealden, 22 January 2009
150 m awayRef 2009470900643
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda PA50VC
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 85 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 85, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda PA50VC)
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 199647SA60297 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 1996.