A22 crash in Wealden on 22 February 2006 at 06:17 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the A22 in Wealden at 06:17 on Wednesday 22 February 2006. The 45-year-old male driver of the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Feb 2006
- Wednesday, 06:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99538, longitude 0.07901, in the TN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maresfield.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006470601824
- 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
- 22
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 272
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
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 13 February 2005.
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A22 in Wealden, 13 February 2005
10 m awayRef 2005470500990
Serious
Ford crash on the A22 in Wealden, 23 July 2025
13 m awayRef 2025471619845
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A272 in Wealden, 21 March 1997
14 m awayRef 199747HA70181
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A22 in Wealden, 31 May 2002
22 m awayRef 200247K151340
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A22 in Wealden, 13 February 2013
34 m awayRef 2013471300823
Serious
BMW R Series crash on the A22 in Wealden, 18 August 2024
34 m awayRef 2024471483625
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
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 2006470601824 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 2006.