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Serious unclassified road crash in Wealden BN26 on 3 April 2002 at 11:25 involving a taxi

A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wealden at 11:25 on Wednesday 3 April 2002. An 85-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
3 Apr 2002
Wednesday, 11:25
Vehicles
1
Taxi
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82081, longitude 0.24404, in the BN26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Polegate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Polegate North, Wealden, BN26 6BY area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Wealden

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200247S149094
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
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Reversing
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    32 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 85, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing

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 200247S149094 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.