Unclassified road crash in Wealden TN20 on 12 December 2000 at 19:24 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 crashed on an unclassified road in Wealden at 19:24 on Tuesday 12 December 2000. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2000
- Tuesday, 19:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 323
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.02209, longitude 0.26287, in the TN20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mayfield.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047S131268
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 June 2017.
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 30 June 2017
13 m awayRef 2017471703610
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 20 August 2017
38 m awayRef 2017471704715
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 16 September 2022
56 m awayRef 2022471220167
Slight
Peugeot 108 crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 8 November 2024
122 m awayRef 2024471513856
Slight
Car crash on the A267 in Wealden, 3 October 1985
160 m awayRef 198547UA50365
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 19 June 2015
166 m awayRef 2015471503436
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 323)
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 200047S131268 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.