B2203 crash in Wealden on 27 March 1998 at 16:00 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the B2203 in Wealden at 16:00 on Friday 27 March 1998. The 51-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Mar 1998
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95119, longitude 0.24943, in the TN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Horam.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199847SA80235
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2203
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 September 2008.
Serious
Saab 9-3 crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 9 September 2008
10 m awayRef 2008470806957
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 25 February 2024
11 m awayRef 2024471413798
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 5 September 2018
22 m awayRef 2018471804933
Slight
Ford Ranger crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 29 May 2008
30 m awayRef 2008470804176
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 18 June 1990
32 m awayRef 199047SA00292
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 10 December 1991
41 m awayRef 199147SA10542
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 199847SA80235 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.