B2203 crash in Wealden on 11 October 2000 at 19:00 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the B2203 in Wealden at 19:00 on Wednesday 11 October 2000. The 61-year-old male driver of the Renault Clio and a male passenger in the Toyota Avensis were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 2000
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96663, longitude 0.25647, in the TN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heathfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047S127693
- 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
- 2203
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2008.
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on a C road in Wealden, 1 March 2008
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Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 1 May 2005
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Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 11 February 2011
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Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 28 May 2023
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Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 14 March 2021
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Slight
Lorry crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 22 March 2022
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- 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 200047S127693 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.