A22 crash in Wealden on 14 April 2000 at 07:00 involving a Jaguar XJ Series
A Jaguar XJ Series, a Volkswagen LT 35 van and a Scania lorry were involved in a crash on the A22 in Wealden at 07:00 on Friday 14 April 2000. The 21-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen LT 35 van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Apr 2000
- Friday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Jaguar XJ Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10392, longitude 0.02831, in the RH18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047S004919
- 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
- 22
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 40 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 February 2009.
Serious
Taxi crash on the A22 in Wealden, 21 February 2009
40 m awayRef 2009470901367
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 8 June 1987
57 m awayRef 198747HA70291
Slight
Honda CG125 crash on the A22 in Wealden, 18 October 2020
70 m awayRef 2020470990892
Slight
Rover Range Rover crash on the A22 in Wealden, 7 February 1997
71 m awayRef 199747HA70116
Serious
BMW X3 crash on the A22 in Wealden, 26 July 2018
78 m awayRef 2018471804127
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 16 June 1987
86 m awayRef 198747HA70316
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar XJ Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 3,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen LT 35
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,459 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Scania
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen LT 35)
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 200047S004919 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.