Unclassified road crash in Wealden TN22 on 31 August 2004 at 16:43 involving a Mercedes minibus
A Mercedes minibus and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wealden at 16:43 on Tuesday 31 August 2004. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Aug 2004
- Tuesday, 16:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96912, longitude 0.09379, in the TN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Uckfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Uckfield East, Wealden, TN22 1PX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200447K178236
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 2002.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 20 July 2002
20 m awayRef 200247K152734
Serious
Car crash on the B2102 in Wealden, 1 May 1988
22 m awayRef 198847HA80281
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 6 April 1990
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Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 15 October 2019
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Slight
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41 m awayRef 2010471000355
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the B2102 in Wealden, 12 July 2021
45 m awayRef 2021471065452
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Minibus (8 to 16 seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,972 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 200447K178236 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 2004.