C road crash in Wealden TN22 on 15 April 1997 at 16:15 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova crashed on a C road in Wealden at 16:15 on Tuesday 15 April 1997. A 16-year-old female passenger and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 1997
- Tuesday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01414, longitude 0.16879, in the TN22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199747HA70240
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 1985.
Slight
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 5 August 2012
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 18 June 1984
92 m awayRef 198447UA40141
Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199747HA70240 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 1997.