A275 crash in Wealden on 28 July 2000 at 17:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A275 in Wealden at 17:00 on Friday 28 July 2000. The 19-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta 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
- 28 Jul 2000
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99281, longitude -0.00034, in the TN22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047S005573
- 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
- 275
- 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, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 2005.
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A275 in Wealden, 23 June 2005
45 m awayRef 2005470504920
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A275 in Lewes, 27 May 2004
50 m awayRef 200447K175191
Slight
Car crash on the A275 in Lewes, 16 September 1983
71 m awayRef 198347CA30990
Serious
Car crash on the A275 in Lewes, 4 December 1981
71 m awayRef 198147CA11206
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A275 in Lewes, 10 May 2025
108 m awayRef 2025471588302
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on the A275 in Lewes, 2 December 1997
128 m awayRef 199747SA70872
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200047S005573 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.