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A259 crash in Wealden on 23 December 1997 at 15:30 involving a Fiat Panda

A Fiat Panda hit a pedestrian on the A259 in Wealden at 15:30 on Tuesday 23 December 1997. An 8-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
23 Dec 1997
Tuesday, 15:30
Vehicles
1
Fiat Panda
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81386, longitude 0.3537, in the BN24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pevensey Bay.

Map of where the crash happened in Wealden

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199747SA70899
Council area
Wealden
Police force
Sussex
Highway authority
East Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
259
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 July 1985.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Fiat Panda

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    27 years
    Engine capacity
    769 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    6 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Panda)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 199747SA70899 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.