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A295 crash in Wealden on 12 January 1997 at 16:50 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A295 in Wealden at 16:50 on Sunday 12 January 1997. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
12 Jan 1997
Sunday, 16:50
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86266, longitude 0.26009, in the BN27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hailsham.

Map of where the crash happened in Wealden

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199747SA70015
Council area
Wealden
Police force
Sussex
Highway authority
East Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
295
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Zebra crossing

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 October 1981.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    50 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 199747SA70015 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.