A22 crash in Wealden on 19 October 2000 at 12:28 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto, a Ford Escort and a MAN lorry were involved in a crash on the A22 in Wealden at 12:28 on Thursday 19 October 2000. The 51-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 2000
- Thursday, 12:28
- Vehicles
- 3
- Fiat Punto and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84361, longitude 0.24144, in the BN26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047S128027
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A22 in Wealden, 31 August 1995
10 m awayRef 199547SA50588
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 20 September 1988
22 m awayRef 198847SA80399
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A22 in Wealden, 16 September 2007
45 m awayRef 2007470707748
Slight
Van crash on the A22 in Wealden, 3 October 1989
45 m awayRef 198947SA90483
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 31 January 2015
48 m awayRef 2015471500672
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A22 in Wealden, 3 December 2020
66 m awayRef 2020471004042
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 3: MAN
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 200047S128027 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.