Unclassified road crash in Wealden BN24 on 19 March 2006 at 11:00 involving a Kia Sedona
A Kia Sedona hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wealden at 11:00 on Sunday 19 March 2006. A 78-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 2006
- Sunday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Sedona
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8119, longitude 0.34951, 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
- 2006470602297
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 259
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, 22 metres away, was a fatal crash on 18 May 1979.
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Wealden, 18 May 1979
22 m awayRef 197947SA90219
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A259 in Wealden, 15 March 2019
38 m awayRef 2019471901429
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A259 in Wealden, 12 January 2023
38 m awayRef 2023471262239
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A259 in Wealden, 7 May 1994
41 m awayRef 199447SA40264
Slight
Van crash on the A259 in Wealden, 14 March 1980
45 m awayRef 198047SA00113
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Wealden, 24 January 1989
50 m awayRef 198947SA90044
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Sedona
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,902 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 78, hit by vehicle 1 (Kia Sedona)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2006470602297 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.