Unclassified road crash in Wealden TN3 on 18 November 2001 at 12:20 involving a Citroen Xantia
A Citroen Xantia crashed on an unclassified road in Wealden at 12:20 on Sunday 18 November 2001. The 74-year-old male driver and a 72-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 2001
- Sunday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xantia
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10549, longitude 0.2428, in the TN3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Withyham, Wealden, TN3 9BY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200147S144757
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xantia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xantia)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xantia)
- 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 200147S144757 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 2001.