A259 crash in Wealden on 30 October 2004 at 05:05 involving a Renault 19
A Renault 19 and two cars were involved in a crash on the A259 in Wealden at 05:05 on Saturday 30 October 2004. A 19-year-old male passenger in the Renault 19 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 2004
- Saturday, 05:05
- Vehicles
- 3
- Renault 19 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81102, longitude 0.34819, in the BN24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pevensey Bay. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pevensey Bay, Wealden, BN24 6AA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200447K180908
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 1992.
Slight
Renault 9 crash on the A259 in Wealden, 28 November 1992
10 m awayRef 199247SA20498
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Wealden, 26 August 1987
10 m awayRef 198747SA70357
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Wealden, 1 October 1988
10 m awayRef 198847SA80445
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A259 in Wealden, 11 February 2003
10 m awayRef 200347K159844
Serious
Audi 80 crash on the A259 in Wealden, 23 September 1995
10 m awayRef 199547SA50637
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A259 in Wealden, 6 July 2007
10 m awayRef 2007470705581
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Renault 19
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 19)
- 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 200447K180908 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.