A272 crash in Wealden on 28 February 2000 at 12:00 involving a Citroen AX
A Citroen AX and a Toyota Landcruiser were involved in a crash on the A272 in Wealden at 12:00 on Monday 28 February 2000. The 20-year-old female driver of the Citroen AX was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Feb 2000
- Monday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen AX and Toyota Landcruiser
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99012, longitude 0.1362, in the TN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Buxted.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047S004610
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 July 2020.
Serious
Harley-Davidson crash on the A272 in Wealden, 11 July 2020
28 m awayRef 2020470963720
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A272 in Wealden, 29 March 2011
32 m awayRef 2011471102043
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A272 in Wealden, 8 October 2004
36 m awayRef 200447K179472
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A272 in Wealden, 13 June 2019
36 m awayRef 2019470847748
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A272 in Wealden, 27 October 2008
40 m awayRef 2008470808244
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A272 in Wealden, 11 February 1997
41 m awayRef 199747HA70097
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Landcruiser
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,982 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen AX)
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 200047S004610 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 2000.