Unclassified road crash in Wealden TN22 on 19 December 2000 at 07:48 involving a Leyland bus
A Leyland bus crashed on an unclassified road in Wealden at 07:48 on Tuesday 19 December 2000. A 16-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2000
- Tuesday, 07:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95859, longitude 0.10456, in the TN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Uckfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047S132214
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, 60 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 8 April 1985
60 m awayRef 198547UA50058
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on a C road in Wealden, 28 July 1993
61 m awayRef 199347HA30456
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Wealden, 22 July 2005
86 m awayRef 2005470505965
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Wealden, 15 January 2003
110 m awayRef 200347K158967
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in Wealden, 27 September 1995
112 m awayRef 199547HA50574
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 26 October 2004
112 m awayRef 200447K180070
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 200047S132214 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.