Serious B2203 crash in Wealden on 18 April 2003 at 09:20 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Apr 2003
- Friday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95597, longitude 0.24997, in the TN21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200347K161982
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2203
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 1993.
Slight
Car crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 30 August 1993
10 m awayRef 199347SA30522
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 12 November 2018
17 m awayRef 2018471806260
Serious
Volvo V70 crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 8 November 2021
31 m awayRef 2021471107340
Serious
Car crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 10 April 1987
51 m awayRef 198747SA70130
Serious
Renault Master crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 10 July 2009
61 m awayRef 2009470904979
Slight
Car crash on the B2203 in Wealden, 13 August 1995
100 m awayRef 199547SA50531
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 200347K161982 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 2003.