A259 crash in Wealden on 16 October 1998 at 19:55 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A259 in Wealden at 19:55 on Friday 16 October 1998. The 25-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 1998
- Friday, 19:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82087, longitude 0.34042, 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
- 199847S001489
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2191
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 2016.
Slight
Electric motorcycle crash on the A259 in Wealden, 4 October 2016
19 m awayRef 2016471605974
Serious
Yamaha FZ crash on the A259 in Wealden, 24 April 2025
20 m awayRef 2025471581704
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the A259 in Wealden, 26 November 2024
22 m awayRef 2024471521812
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Wealden, 4 December 1997
22 m awayRef 199747SA70843
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A259 in Wealden, 13 September 1996
28 m awayRef 199647SA60652
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Wealden, 15 August 1982
32 m awayRef 198247SA20526
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,544 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199847S001489 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 1998.