Unclassified road crash in Wealden BN24 on 14 August 2002 at 16:09 involving a Fiat Uno
A Fiat Uno and a Toyota Avensis were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wealden at 16:09 on Wednesday 14 August 2002. The 71-year-old male driver of the Fiat Uno and the 32-year-old female driver of the Toyota Avensis were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2002
- Wednesday, 16:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Uno and Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80837, longitude 0.34167, in the BN24 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200247K153167
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 July 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Wealden, 20 July 1987
10 m awayRef 198747SA70280
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Wealden, 3 September 1986
14 m awayRef 198647UA60409
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A259 in Wealden, 23 February 1999
22 m awayRef 199947S002525
Serious
Suzuki DR Z400 crash on the A259 in Wealden, 26 December 2016
29 m awayRef 2016471607793
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A259 in Wealden, 31 July 2011
30 m awayRef 2011471104699
Slight
Van crash on the A259 in Wealden, 30 August 1982
30 m awayRef 198247SA20575
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Uno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Uno)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Avensis)
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 200247K153167 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 2002.