Serious B2105 crash in Wealden on 6 December 2006 at 22:52 involving a car
A car crashed on the B2105 in Wealden at 22:52 on Wednesday 6 December 2006. The 19-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Dec 2006
- Wednesday, 22:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81027, longitude 0.23572, in the BN26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lower Willingdon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lower Willingdon, Wealden, BN20 9QG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006470610629
- 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
- 2105
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Wealden, 13 June 2009
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Slight
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Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Wealden, 27 May 2003
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 15 October 1988
22 m awayRef 198847SA80443
Slight
Ford crash on a C road in Wealden, 21 January 1992
22 m awayRef 199247SA20028
Serious
Bentley Continental crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 28 May 2020
28 m awayRef 2020470953897
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2006470610629 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.