B2247 crash in Wealden on 16 September 1999 at 09:10 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Vauxhall Nova were involved in a crash on the B2247 in Wealden at 09:10 on Thursday 16 September 1999. A 72-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Nova was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 1999
- Thursday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81957, longitude 0.27578, 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
- 199947S003497
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2247
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 27
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 2000.
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on the B2247 in Wealden, 11 April 2000
At the same spotRef 200047S004942
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A27 in Wealden, 30 November 1997
14 m awayRef 199747SA70850
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B2247 in Wealden, 18 June 2024
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Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B2247 in Wealden, 6 December 2019
18 m awayRef 2019470908940
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 26 February 2017
19 m awayRef 2017471701134
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A22 in Wealden, 2 August 2025
19 m awayRef 2025471623813
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199947S003497 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 1999.