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C road crash in Wealden BN24 on 2 September 1997 at 17:15 involving a Land Rover 88

A bicycle and a Land Rover 88 were involved in a crash on a C road in Wealden at 17:15 on Tuesday 2 September 1997. The 13-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.

Severity
Slight
Date
2 Sep 1997
Tuesday, 17:15
Vehicles
2
Bicycle and Land Rover 88
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82913, longitude 0.2961, in the BN24 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Wealden

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199747SA70596
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
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Using private drive or entrance
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, 67 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 2007.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    13 years

  • Vehicle 2: Land Rover 88

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    38 years
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Male, aged 13, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

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 199747SA70596 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.